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Some anthropologists feel that repatriation will harm anthropological research and understanding. For example, Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer believe that repatriation is the loss of collections, and thereby the "loss of data." [6] This is due to the nature of Western science and epistemology. To improve scientific accuracy, biological ...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is a law that establishes the ownership of cultural items excavated or discovered on federal or tribal land after November 16, 1990. The act also applies to land transferred by the federal government to the states under the Water Resources Department Act. [6]
NAGPRA, a federal law passed in 1990, mandated that institutions repatriate Native American ancestors and cultural belongings. Despite this law being passed 30 years, universities violated it ...
Cal NAGPRA (Assembly Bill (978)) was an act created by the state of California which was signed into law in 2001. The act was created to implement the same repatriation expectations for state-funded institutions, museums, repositories, or collections as those federally supported through NAGPRA .
One museum in the Midwest told Native News Online in early January that it is averaging one repatriation per year due to budgetary constraints. Repatriation Delays A Matter of Priorities, Not ...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which was passed in 1990, “requires Federal agencies and institutions that receive Federal funds (including museums ...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), passed in 1990, provides a process for museums and federal agencies to return certain cultural items such as human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, etc. to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organisations.
U.S. senators want five institutions, including Harvard and UC Berkeley, to explain why they hold thousands of Native American remains and belongings.