Visitors to the Denver Art Museum look at “Drum (Gaaw),” a cultural item from the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, on display in the Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries on March 27, 2024. The tribes, from southeast Alaska, have been trying to reclaim their cultural items from the Denver Art Museum for more than 30 years. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Visitors to the Denver Art Museum look at “Drum (Gaaw),” a cultural item from the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, on display in the Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries on March 27, 2024. The tribes, from southeast Alaska, have been trying to reclaim their cultural items from the Denver Art Museum for more than 30 years. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

In 2017, a delegation from the Tlingit and Haida Indian…