Repatriation (Other Keyword)
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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. The recent concern in Indigenous Archaeology is whether Heritage objects should be allowed to live and breathe among their family. A study for, by and with the Indigenous community should be able to recreate the best place for the communities, while some communities claim that their ancestors...
Refelctions on Repatriation: Images of Academic America in the Mirror of NAGPRA (1999)
A dynamic landscape of relations exists between Native Americans and the American academic community, and as the final days of the 20th century approach, it is important for us to contemplate the legacy of relationships we will pass along to our successors. The topic of repatriation has played a prominent role in shaping this legacy in recent years particularly for archaeologists. Repatriation presents us with an enormously complex issue rooted in historical circumstances that have often been...
Reforming the Collection: Documentation, Fieldwork, and the NAGPRA Process at SUNY Oswego (2018)
The discovery of human remains in the SUNY Oswego archaeological collection in 2005 led to a ten year inventory process to fulfill our responsibilities under NAGPRA. From the beginning, our fundamental difficulty was the overall lack of documentation and information about the materials comprising the Oswego collection. Difficulties with the existing catalog and storage condition of the materials heightened the difficulties of inventory process. Many of the sites represented in our collection...
Repatriation Collaborations Using 3D Technology: The Smithsonian-Tlingit Experience (2016)
Smithsonian repatriation efforts have resulted in close consultation and collaboration with tribes and Alaskan Native communities that have enabled exploration of museum resources and shared interests taking the communities and the Institution far beyond what was envisioned by most when the repatriation legislation was first enacted. In particular, the Tlingit Dakhl'aweidi clan and the Hoonah Indian Association have worked with the National Museum of Natural History to pilot collaborations using...
The Repatriation of Artifacts to Storm, an 18th Century Shipwreck (2018)
In today’s archaeological environment full excavation is almost impossible due to a lack of funding. In order to gain a broad picture of a wreck, the archaeologists at the St Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum collect a wide sample of field specimens, not knowing what artifacts may lay inside the concretions. It isn’t until after the concretions have been x-rayed that conservators can determine which concretions may contain the most useful diagnostic information and start the conservation...
Repatriation of the Ancient One - A Tribal View: Then, Now, and In-Between (2016)
The Ancient One’s 8,400 year old remains were claimed by Native American Tribes as their ancestor after eroding from the banks of the Columbia River in 1996. What began as an Inadvertent Discovery, defined in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), turned into a 20 year challenge to the Act, tribal culture, oral traditions and religious beliefs. In 2004, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling allowing scientific study of the Ancient One; the...
Repatriation to Lineal Descendants of Sitting Bull (2016)
Despite numerous books and historical accounts of the 1890 death of Sitting Bull, only one obscure 1893 magazine article mentions that a U.S. Army surgeon cut off a lock of Sitting Bull’s hair and took leggings from his body. These items were loaned to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History back in 1896 and were recently evaluated for repatriation and were returned to Sitting Bull’s family. This poster reviews the research that determined which descendants had the highest standing...
Restitution to Whom? Considerations Regarding Restitution to Indigenous Peoples of French Possessions (2023)
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. In 2014, the skull of the famous Kanak rebel, Chief Ataï, was restituted to the Kanak peoples by the French government. Since then, France has been at the center of international restitution debates, especially those in Benin, however less consideration has been given to restitution to...
Results of the 2015 Repatriation Survey (2016)
In 2015, the Society for American Archaeology conducted a survey on members’ opinions on repatriation and the SAA’s Statement Concerning the Treatment of Human Remains. Among other things, this survey was intended to gauge support for changing the SAA’s statement to privilege the wishes of Native American communities, to emphasize scientific values, or to more strongly recognize interests of multiple stakeholders. The majority of the 1,905 respondents to the survey believe that the SAA’s...
Return of Cultural Treasures (1989)
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Seeking Balance: The Role of the Review Committee in NAGPRA Implementation (2016)
As part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Congress established the NAGPRA Review Committee, and gave it formal responsibilities covering various critical aspects of NAGPRA's implementations. In establishing Review Committee, Congress sought to "ensure a balance between differing viewpoints among Native Americans, museums, and scientific organizations." This paper considers the Review Committee's involvement in NAGPRA and the important roles that the Society...
Turning Privilege into "Common-Sense": Truth-Claims and Control of Cultural Heritage (2015)
Over the course of the last few decades Indigenous and descendant communities have increasingly made calls for control of their own heritage, both in terms of material objects and historical narratives. While these efforts have resulted in at least some measure of success, these communities continue to occasionally face challenges from researchers, scholars, and other agents who are in positions of power that allow them to control and define what heritage consist of. In my paper I interrogate...
Where Do Data Come From? The Legacy and Future of Cultural Resource Management Bioarchaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Bioarchaeology in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper considers the role of CRM-based bioarchaeologists in bioarchaeology as practice and as a realm of research. Doing bioarchaeology in this context invokes professional challenges and responsibilities that transcend the individual project. Bioarchaeologists on the front lines of engagement with descendant communities, corporate...