Smith broke barriers for Native art and exhibited at major museums around the U.S. Before she died last month, she planned a large-scale sculpture for the Missoula Art Museum.

Almost a century after it was taken from Gamilaraay country in New South Wales, a sacred tree known as a dhulu is returned by a Swiss museum.

According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...