Central museums in the US close their original collections rooms. Due to new heritage laws, they decide to close entire wings with artifacts from native cultures.
New federal legislation requires museums to process permits from native communities before exhibiting their collections. Tens of thousands of skeletons and bone remains will be returned, used in scientific studies, to their original descendants. "We are finally being heard, and this is not a fight, it is a conversation," said Myra Masiel-Zamora, archaeologist and curator of the Pechanga Band of Indians.