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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of ongoing NAGPRA compliance, Michigan State University recently drafted its first official NAGPRA policy. As part of the discussions surrounding the creation of this policy, two things became clear 1) that as a university, we are committed to “working collaboratively with Indigenous...
Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland (2003)
This Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) provides guidance for the effective and efficient management of cultural resources as an integral part of the Base Comprehensive Plan (BCP), as required by Air Force Instruction (AFI) 32-7065, Cultural Resources Management, for the five-year period beginning in fiscal year 2003. This plan includes a summary of the history and prehistory of the base, and reviews past architectural and archeological survey efforts. It outlines and assigns...
An Interagency Agreement Between DOA and DOI on the Delegation of Responsibilities for the Kennewick Human Remains [March 24, 1998] (1998)
Interagency Agreement Between the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior on the Delegation of Responsibilities under Section 3 of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act pertaining to Human Remains Discovered Near the City of Kennewick, Washington.
An Introducton and Index to Documents and Reports about the Kennewick Man (2013)
This document provides an overview, introduction, and listing of the various reports and related documents regarding the Kennewick Man remains.
Inventory and Analysis of Select Archaeological Collections from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region (1996)
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Kirtland Air Force Base Project Metadata
Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.
Learning NAGPRA and Teaching Archaeology (2016)
In 2014 and 2015, researchers from Indiana University received National Science Foundation funding through their Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM initiative to study how repatriation is taught and learned, and to work toward interventions to improve the resources available. The “Learning NAGPRA” project prioritizes a more thorough understanding of the challenges and bottlenecks in preparing professionals for work related to NAGPRA and repatriation. It also seeks better ways to assist...
Learning NAGPRA: Nationwide Survey Results (2016)
Although the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed as federal legislation in 1990, it seems that many students do not receive comprehensive coverage of the law and its connections to the broader disciplinary histories of anthropology and museum studies and to professional research ethics. Indiana University was awarded NSF grants in 2014 and 2015 to conduct a nationwide study on NAGPRA teaching and training and to collaborate with specialists in preparing...
Learning Through Compliance: Engaging Students and Volunteers Through NAGPRA Work at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (2021)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019 the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) in Montgomery, Alabama enlisted a group of students and volunteers to undertake a formidable amount of collections management work necessary to achieving NAGPRA compliance, while also challenging them to engage with NAGPRA legislation and ethics. This program was able to accommodate a range of education levels, institutions,...
Letter from Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera Regarding Disposition of the Kennewick Human Remains (2000)
This letter describes the Department of Interior's (DOI) final determination and resolution of the issues delegated to DOI by the Department of the Army (DOA) in a March 1998 interagency agreement. In this agreement, DOI agreed to make the following two determinations related to the set of human skeletal remains recovered on July 26, 1996, from Columbia Park, land controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), near the city of Kennewick, Benton County, Washington: 1) whether these human...
Letter--Departmental Consulting Archeologist, DOI-NPS, to the US Army Corps of Engineers regarding questions about Kennewick Man [Dec. 23, 1997] (1997)
This letter, written by Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archeologist, to Lt. Colonel Donald Curtis, Jr., United States Army Corps of Engineers-Walla Walla District, provides answers to a set of questions posed regarding aspects of the Kennewick Man case. Col. Curtis asked Dr. McManamon to address these questions because the DCA office was responsible for providing governmentwide expertise on implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Letter: Consultation for Bellows Remains at O'ahu Burial Council Meeting (1998)
Purpose of the letter is to consult on the repatriation of remains from Air Force property in accordance with NAGPRA.
Letter: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Maxwell AFB (1993)
Letter regarding absence of NAGPRA resources at Maxwell AFB sent to HQ, Department of the Air Force.
Letters of correspondence relating to Catawba Indian Nation Repatriation of Human Remains (2001)
This document contains letters between Terry Madewell, Shaw AFB Natural and Cultural Resources Manager, Wenonah Haire, THPO Executive Director, and Gilbert Blue, Chairman of the Catawba Indian Nation. These letters document the process of repatriation of Catawba Nation human remains in compliance with NAGPRA.
Memorandum: Determination that the Kennewick Skeltal Remains are "Native American" for the Purposes of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) (2000)
This is a copy of the official Department of the Interior memorandum describing the determination that the Kennewick human skeletal remains should be considered "Native American" for the purposes of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The rationale for this determination, described in the memorandum relied upon the results of radiocarbon dating which established that the remains were clearly pre-Columbian, about 8,000 years old. Additional evidence from the...
Mistaken identity?: A reassessment of the Angel Mounds historic cemetery site using anthroposcopic and XRF analyses (2015)
In 1940, a collection of human skeletons were excavated from a historic cemetery on Mound F at Angel Mounds State Historic Site, near Evansville, Indiana. Based on the presence of a single historic grave stone, these remains were determined to be Euroamerican. However, after further study of morphological characteristics and copper staining, we suggest that several individuals are of Native American descent. An evaluation of the elemental composition of the copper staining using a portable X-ray...
More Than Just Compliance: Practicing NAGPRA at The Alabama Department of Archives and History. (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017, the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) received NAGPRA inquiries regarding its archaeological collection. This prompted a re-examination of the organization’s 1990s response to NAGPRA, and led to the conclusion that the ADAH was unintentionally incompliant with the law. Staff began development of a multiphase project not only to become compliant, but also to...
Museum archaeology in the United States: refocusing research questions and updating methodologies alongside NAGPRA (2016)
Collections in museums are components of refocusing and revising archaeological interpretation in the United States alongside the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Review of collections as prompted by NAGPRA is improving documentation and interpretation of those collections subject to the Act and beyond, across sites and regions. Previously incomplete archaeological contexts may be refined and these bring potential for updated research questions and methodologies. A...
NAGPRA Education in Graduate Programs: The Jobs Are There, Where Is the Training? (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the passing of NAGPRA in 1990, a potential new sub-field of jobs has emerged for bioarchaeologists and archaeologists who are invested in the repatriation process of Indigenous ancestral remains and sacred belongings. It has been 32 years since the law was passed, and NAGPRA job vacancies at federally funded institutions are still widely prevalent...
NAGPRA Human Remains Inventory: Making Our Work More Vsible (2016)
In 2008, Central Washington University NAGPRA Program and the Columbia Plateau Tribes created a more visible, participatory osteobiography process. CWU let go of the “culture of secrecy” around our NAGPRA human remains documentation process and found the benefits outweigh fears. The change showed the tribes what we really do and generated research questions from Tribal representatives.
NAGPRA vs. Northwestern: It's Personal (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a twenty-one-year-old graduate student, I was present when an Indigenous ancestor, pipe in hand, was removed from the earth, placed in a box, and taken to storage. My encounter with this individual transformed and guided the course of my career in a field that has changed over the intervening decades and is working on recognition of human rights. I knew...
Native American Determination for Kennewick Man (2016)
This is a copy of the official determination by the Division Commander of the Northwestern Division of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Brigadier General Scott A. Spellmon, that for the purposes of compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kennewick Man skeletal remains should be considered "Native American." The 14-page report describes the information and research results that support this determination. The determination is based on review...
Native American Program Metrics (2022)
Information and definitions about NAGRPA and installation responsibilities within the confines of NAGRPA.
Patriation: NAGPRA’s Regulations on Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains, applied (2016)
In 2010, the promulgation of new regulations under 1990’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) threatened to upset the hard-won balance that had developed between the legitimate interests of descendant communities and the scientific and museum communities over the previous twenty years. Because the 10.11 rule broadly mandates the disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains, many parties—including the Society for American Archaeology—reacted negatively,...
Perishable: Human Hair AZRU20-2866 (2006)
Human Hair, Accession AZRU-00020, Catalog #2866. Other No: [Unknown]. CULTURALLY SENSITIVE, NAGPRA ARTIFACT; ACCESS RESTRICTED. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. 6-strand braid of human hair. Strands folded over a strand of plant fiber or possibly sinew at one end. Braiding proceeded from there. Measurements: L 24.0 (straightened), W 0.7 CM. Image: AZRU20-2866A: 6-strand braid of human hair; elements folded over another cord at left. Recovered from Room [Unknown], Aztec West Ruin. Artifact from...