“I’m just about to finish this fascinating book on repatriation,” Jane said. “Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits by Chip Colwell.” “I should probably know this. But remind me—what’s repatriation?” Allison said. “Basically it’s a process by which stolen funerary objects and sacred items and body parts are returned to the proper Indian tribes and lineal descendants.” “Body parts?” Genevieve said, sounding horrified. “Stolen by whom?” Allison said. “The federal government, the Smithsonian, Harvard. Every major museum and university in the country and the world, pretty much,” Jane said.
