Late last month, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists (WAPA) filed a complaint against Douglas J. Burgum, the US Secretary of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming. NAGPRA requires museums and federal agencies to repatriate Native American human remains, funerary and sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to descendants and tribal communities. The new regulations were designed to close loopholes, strengthen tribal authority, and give institutions five years to inventory and prepare all ancestors and related funerary objects for repatriation. The 2024 regulations were meant to close that loophole. It challenges the entire regulatory scheme Interior developed “between 2010 and 2024,” arguing that Interior rewrote NAGPRA in a way that “exceeds the boundaries of the 1990 statute.”