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NATIONAL NAGPRA. What is The National NAGPRA program?. NATIONAL NAGPRA. The National NAGPRA Program: NAGPRA is The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/. NATIONAL NAGPRA. The National NAGPRA Program: Approved on November 16, 1990 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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NATIONAL NAGPRA
What is The National NAGPRA program?
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• NAGPRA is The Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act
http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Approved on November 16, 1990
• Address the rights of Native Americans and Native
Hawaiians to cultural items, including human
remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and
objects of cultural patrimony
http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Native American Human Remains
• Physical remains of a human body of a person of
Native American ancestry
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Funerary Objects
• Any object that may be a part of a burial or
ceremony, which is reasonably believed to have
been placed with or near individual human
remains at the time of death or later
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Funerary Objects
• Associated Funerary Objects: Objects that were
made exclusively for burial purposes and are
linked with an identified set of human remains in
possession or control of a museum or federal
agency or rejoined with an identified set of
human remains
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Funerary Objects
• Unassociated Funerary Objects: Objects in the
possession or control of a museum or federal
agency that are separated from the human
remains that were buried with or cannot be
connected to a specific individual
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Sacred Objects- Objects of Cultural Patrimony
• Objects that have historical, traditional, or
cultural importance
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Part of The National Park Service
• Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior
• NAGPRA Regulations are outlined in 43 CFR Part 10• http://
www.nps.gov/nagpra/mandates/43_CFR_10_12-4-95.pdf
http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Has more than a legal meaning
• Cultural
• Social
• Economic
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Cultural: these items are significant to Native
Americans. Their thoughts, feeling, desires, and
wishes should be respected
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Social: Burial rites are a social tradition in Native
American culture. Relationships are formed between
museums and Native American communities that
usually do not occur, at least in a respectful manner
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Economic: Repatriations and documentation may not
occur at some museums without Federal funds. It is
an expensive effort.
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• 5 Major Provisions• 1. Resolve Rights, Return-
Guidelines to return human remains and cultural items • 2. Review Committee-
• Monitors the NAGPRA program, helps organizations with related questions
• 3. Grants-• Federal monies to organizations to help with
documentation and repatriation• 4. Civil Penalties-
• Enforce civil penalties for non-compliance• 5. Establish Crime of Trafficking
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Jurisdiction of NAGPRA- Who must comply
• Federal Agencies
• Museums- Any institution, state, or local
government which receives Federal money,
and has possession or, or control over, Native
American cultural items
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Who may claim items
• Lineal descendant
• Indian tribe (includes Alaska native villages and
corporations)
• Native Hawaiian organizations
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• NAGPRA Grants
• Awarded to Indian tribes, Alaska native villages
and corporations, native Hawaiian organizations,
and museums for consultation, documentation,
and repatriation of Native American cultural
items on a project-by-project basis
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• NAGPRA Grants
• Consultation Grants
• Repatriation Grants
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• NAGPRA Grants
• Consultation Grants, used to determine:
• 1. Cultural Affiliation of items
• 2. Custody
• 3. Control
• 4. Treatment
• 5. Repatriation or Disposition
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• NAGPRA Grants
• Repatriation Grants, used to :
• Transfer control to Native Americans
• They may rebury the remains and/or
artifacts, present them in museums, or do
with them whatever the group deems
acceptable
NATIONAL NAGPRAThe National NAGPRA Program:
• Resources:
• http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/INDEX.HTM
• http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/FHPL_NAGPRA.pdf
• http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/MANDATES/INDEX.HTM
• http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/ONLINEDB/INDEX.HTM
• http://www.repatriationfoundation.org/
• http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/3796.htm
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