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Outcomes of NAGPRA repatriation efforts are slow and cumbersome, leading many tribes to spend considerable effort documenting their requests; collections' holders are obliged to inform and engage with tribes whose materials they may possess. NAGPRA was enacted primarily at the insistence and by the direction of members of Native American nations.
There are many challenges surrounding human remains accessioned by museums, including legal complications involved in dealing with human remains, involvement of living relatives or tribes, and potential repatriation and issues such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA). [1] NAGPRA requires any federal or ...
Due to structural problems, it was closed in 1999, with plans for a new larger facility underway. Today the Tunica Treasure collection is housed in the Tunica-Biloxi Cultural and Educational Resources Center, a state-of-the-art facility that includes a library, conservation center, distance-learning center, conference facilities, tribal offices ...
It has facilitated the repatriation of almost 2,000 human remains to Dakota tribes and sacred objects to many tribes. In addition, AAIA has submitted amicus briefs in NAGPRA cases, written legal analyses of NAGPRA for public education purposes, conducted NAGPRA training, and filed comments on proposed regulations. The Association is dedicated ...
[3] [4] The CAP program was an attempt to fix the problems inherent within Florida's previous Isolated Finds Program of 1996–2005 and fix the amateur/professional relationship. The bills directed Florida's Department of Historical Resources to implement a replacement program for divers to again legally discover and report isolated artifacts ...
WASHINGTON – Several Republican senators say they disagree with President Donald Trump's assessment that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "a dictator.". Asked whether she believes ...
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. Cal NAGPRA also supports non-federally recognized ...
Historian Philip J. Deloria has noted that European Americans "playing Indian" is a phenomenon that stretches back at least as far as the Boston Tea Party. [14] In his 1998 book Playing Indian, Deloria argues that white settlers have always played with stereotypical imagery of the peoples that were replaced during colonization, using these tropes to form a new national identity that can be ...