The Source: Oklahoma tribes pushing university to return ancestral remains

More than a century after archeologists collected Native American remains and burial items from locations in the deep south for academic study, Oklahoma tribes are struggling to repatriate their own history from university archives.

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The Oklahoman's indigenous affairs reporter Molly Young joins The Source podcast this week to talk about her story, which describes efforts to reclaim human remains and funerary objects from the University of Alabama, and other schools.

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Co-hosts Nuria Martinez-Keel and Dale Denwalt also ask about Young's reporting on how modern Native Americans celebrate Thanksgiving.

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The Source is a podcast exploring current events in Oklahoma, as told by reporters and editors from The Oklahoman. Hosted by Nuria Martinez-Keel and Dale Denwalt.

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