Building Community in the Northeast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Northeast NAGPRA Community of Practice was founded in 2023 in an effort to build community and strategize on issues and opportunities related to NAGPRA implementation that are unique to the region. Our goal is to improve trust, develop communications and increase cooperation. Discussion topics include: split collections, collectors and collecting practices across the northeast, working with non-federally recognized tribes and identification of ancestral lands without relying on colonial or US treaties. Thematic concepts address: building trust between tribal communities, institutions and agencies, legacies of acquisition, density of regional institutions, and academic and archaeological overreach. Group membership consists of tribal communities from the northeast, public and private institutions, state agencies located in the region and nonlocal institutions with collections from the northeast.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38914.0