Implementing NAGPRA: A Look at BLM’s Experiences in Alaska, 1990–2017
Author(s): Robert King
Year: 2018
Summary
The 1990 passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) resulted in new responsibilities and challenges for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These included working with museums and tribes concerning certain items in museums removed from federal land sometimes more than a century earlier. The BLM in Alaska has been actively involved with NAGPRA work since the early 1990s, and has completed numerous Federal Register Notices and repatriations with more in progress. This paper briefly looks at some of the unexpected issues and situations that have occurred over the years along with many successes.
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Implementing NAGPRA: A Look at BLM’s Experiences in Alaska, 1990–2017. Robert King. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444839)
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Keywords
General
Museums, Collections, and Repatriation
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NAGPRA
Geographic Keywords
North America: Arctic and Subarctic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -169.453; min lat: 50.513 ; max long: -49.043; max lat: 72.712 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 20045