In November, the partial skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans were found in the collections of Dartmouth College's anthropology department, sparking a broader conversation about how the remains were acquired and why they sat for so long.
Dartmouth College students Marisa Joseph, right, a member of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, poses with Ahnili Johnson-Jennings, left, a member of the Quapaw, Choctaw, Sac and Fox and Miami tribes, pose outside the Native American House at Dartmouth College, Friday, April 7, 2023, in Hanover, N.H. The college announced in March 2023 that it housed partial Native American skeletal remains in their collection.
BOSTON — As a citizen of the Quapaw Nation, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings has always seen Dartmouth College as the university for Native American students. Her father graduated from the school, founded in 1769 to educate Native Americans, and she had come to rely on its network of students, professors and administrators. But news in March that the Ivy League school in New Hampshire found partial skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans in one of its collections has Johnson-Jennings and others reassessing that relationship.
“It’s hard to reconcile. It’s hard to see the college in this old way where they were taking Native remains and using them for their own benefit,” said Johnson-Jennings, a senior and co-president of Native Americans at Dartmouth. The remains were used to teach a class as recently as last year, just before an audit concluded they had been wrongly catalogued as not Native.
“It was very upsetting to hear, especially when you’ve just felt so supported by a school and they’ve had that secret that maybe no one knew about, but still, to some sense, was a secret,” Johnson-Jennings said, describing a March meeting where Native American students were briefed on the discovery.
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