Thousands of Native American remains in Ohio could finally be laid to rest under a provision that has passed the state House, the start of a process that tribal members have waited on for decades. The Ohio History Connection, a nonprofit organization that works to preserve Ohio history, currently has over 7,100 ancestral remains and funerary objects…like pieces of clothing or jewelry in its possession…that should have been returned under a loosely followed federal law in the 1990s, officials say. The organization has the third-largest amount of these remains in the country, following the University of California at Berkeley and the Illinois State Museum. The language in the state’s operating budget paves the way for the nonprofit to use any land it owns …currently about 6 acres set aside for an intertribal burial ground…to bury the remains. But the organization can’t use the land to bury the remains until it’s designated a burial ground by the Legislature.