For an idea of how this can play out inside the tribal social/political/cultural structure, our Anthro department found itself in the middle of a fight over some Native American artifacts, legally dug with permission from the Feds and what was thought to be the Native American group with a claim to the land.
Soon enough another group of Native Americans (different branch of the same nation) came in and said “that other group is not the true group, we are, give us those artifacts.” The first group responded with “do not give those up, we’ve entrusted you with helping us uncover our heritage.”
Soon enough they were suing each other with abandon, and our good-faith archaeologists caught in the middle. We dumped the collection as soon as we were legally able to put it into capable and legal hands.
ETA to add “/political/cultural”
