Establishing Institutional Partnerships that Reunite Communities through Joint Repatriation

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 Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research have a shared institutional history. This longstanding interconnection has resulted in intertwined holdings, which create numerous split-and-share issues for NAGPRA compliance. To resolve these issues and better facilitate full community returns, we have committed to full partnership across our shared repatriation efforts. This partnership entails the inter-agency sharing of archived documentation and related inventories, collective consultation with Tribal nations, and joint submissions to National NAGPRA. We are together in our commitment to shared consultation decisions for disposition and repatriation and our willingness to coordinate the physical transfer of ancestors and their belongings in accordance with recipient nations wishes. We cooperatively support other institutions that may also retain portions of these collections and, through open communication, ensure that we do not inadvertently create new split situations when accessioning. This collaborative approach to repatriation aims to comprehensively, respectfully, and expediently unite and return ancestral communities.

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): 41658.0