A group of advocates for Native American heritage dramatically shut down the auction of a human skull just moments before it was about to go under the hammer in North Carolina over the weekend.

Mebane. An effort to sell a 600-year-old human skull at a rural North Carolina auction house was abruptly halted over the weekend after a group of opponents led by Native Americans intervened.

The skull was part of the collection of Native American remains from the Muwekma Ohlone tribe unearthed in the East Bay between 1962 and 1968 by San Jose State anthropologists.

Pennsylvania's Southern York County School District voted to reinstate its high school sports team's Native American logo, nearly three years after it was discontinued.