KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

The Oneida Indian Nation can lay 21 of its ancestors back to rest following a repatriation of remains stolen from burial sites by amateur archeologists and held in the collections of the Longyear ...

Representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation traveled to Boston this past week to collect the remains of seven of their ancestors from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

When 20-year-old Charmning Willie Rowe joined the military to fight alongside his brother in World War II, it wasn’t because he was drafted but because he wouldn’t take no as an answer. Time after ...

TULSA, Okla. — The Muscogee (Creek) Nation hosted a Repatriation Ceremony at Council Oak Park and Stickball Park to celebrate the return of the parks to the tribe and the history of the land and ...

New Orleans conducted a deeply meaningful ceremony combining multifaith memorial services with traditional jazz funeral celebrations to honor 19 African American individuals whose remains were finally ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) announced Saturday that iwi kupuna remains are on their way home after formal ceremonies in Northern Ireland. The office said that the ...

ROSSO, Mauritania, March 27 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has wrapped up a visit to Mauritania after witnessing the end of a repatriation programme for more than 24,000 ...

The word repatriation comes from the Latin patria, meaning “fatherland”. Traditionally, it refers to the return of a person ...

BOULDER CITY – The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee, a soldier killed during World War II, were interred Friday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery during a ...