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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]
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. [58] [59] [60]
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 .
Only A Chief, who has been working on NAGPRA since 2019, said the first repatriation she was involved in had more than 10,000 individuals and funerary objects. She recalled seeing the skulls of ...
These state and federal laws — specifically the California Native American Graves Protection Act of 2001 and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 – have been in ...
Maria first became an active advocate for the repatriation of Native American human remains in 1971. [1] At this time, the Iowa Highway Commission uncovered the skeletal remains of 26 European-American pioneers as well as the remains of a Native American woman and her infant child during road construction in Glenwood, Iowa.
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 ...