And a new emphasis on respecting “Native American traditional knowledge” has prompted campus policies restricting professors from showing images of artifacts in class. One university employee even said staff “visit and talk to” Native American artifacts housed at her public institution because some tribes believe the inanimate objects are “relatives and shouldn’t be left alone.” Additionally, “major museums and repositories have closed galleries, covered display cases, removed or restricted access to Native American cultural materials, and suspended educational programming,” it alleges. The lawsuit hinges around a situation involving tribal artifacts housed at the University of Wyoming. Last year, the Bureau of Land Management informed the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository that “entire archaeological collections” from several archeological dig sites would be repatriated from the institution.