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Hair taken from Ute Tribe decades ago will be returned, as Harvard museum apologizes for its ‘objectification’

The Peabody Museum says it will develop a plan for returning clippings to families and tribes.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People gathered for a Bear Dance at Whiterocks, Utah, on the Ute Indian Tribe's Uintah and Ouray reservation on May 19, 2022. The Peabody Museum at Harvard University said Thursday it will return hair clippings taken from tribe members on the reservation in the 1930s.