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NATIONAL NAGPRA

NATIONAL NAGPRA. What is The National NAGPRA program?. NATIONAL NAGPRA. The National NAGPRA Program: NAGPRA is The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/. NATIONAL NAGPRA. The National NAGPRA Program: Approved on November 16, 1990

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NATIONAL NAGPRA

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  1. NATIONAL NAGPRA What is The National NAGPRA program?

  2. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • NAGPRA is The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/

  3. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Approved on November 16, 1990 • Address the rights of Native Americans and Native Hawaiians to cultural items, including human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/

  4. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Native American Human Remains • Physical remains of a human body of a person of Native American ancestry

  5. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Funerary Objects • Any object that may be a part of a burial or ceremony, which is reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later

  6. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Funerary Objects • Associated Funerary Objects: Objects that were made exclusively for burial purposes and are linked with an identified set of human remains in possession or control of a museum or federal agency or rejoined with an identified set of human remains

  7. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Funerary Objects • Unassociated Funerary Objects: Objects in the possession or control of a museum or federal agency that are separated from the human remains that were buried with or cannot be connected to a specific individual

  8. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Sacred Objects- Objects of Cultural Patrimony • Objects that have historical, traditional, or cultural importance

  9. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Part of The National Park Service • Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior • NAGPRA Regulations are outlined in 43 CFR Part 10 • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/mandates/43_CFR_10_12-4-95.pdf • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/

  10. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Has more than a legal meaning • Cultural • Social • Economic

  11. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Cultural: these items are significant to Native Americans. Their thoughts, feeling, desires, and wishes should be respected

  12. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Social: Burial rites are a social tradition in Native American culture. Relationships are formed between museums and Native American communities that usually do not occur, at least in a respectful manner

  13. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Economic: Repatriations and documentation may not occur at some museums without Federal funds. It is an expensive effort.

  14. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • 5 Major Provisions • 1. Resolve Rights, Return- • Guidelines to return human remains and cultural items • 2. Review Committee- • Monitors the NAGPRA program, helps organizations with related questions • 3. Grants- • Federal monies to organizations to help with documentation and repatriation • 4. Civil Penalties- • Enforce civil penalties for non-compliance • 5. Establish Crime of Trafficking

  15. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Jurisdiction of NAGPRA- Who must comply • Federal Agencies • Museums- Any institution, state, or local government which receives Federal money, and has possession or, or control over, Native American cultural items

  16. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Who may claim items • Lineal descendant • Indian tribe (includes Alaska native villages and corporations) • Native Hawaiian organizations

  17. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • NAGPRA Grants • Awarded to Indian tribes, Alaska native villages and corporations, native Hawaiian organizations, and museums for consultation, documentation, and repatriation of Native American cultural items on a project-by-project basis

  18. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • NAGPRA Grants • Consultation Grants • Repatriation Grants

  19. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • NAGPRA Grants • Consultation Grants, used to determine: • 1. Cultural Affiliation of items • 2. Custody • 3. Control • 4. Treatment • 5. Repatriation or Disposition

  20. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • NAGPRA Grants • Repatriation Grants, used to : • Transfer controlto Native Americans • They may rebury the remains and/or artifacts, present them in museums, or do with them whatever the group deems acceptable

  21. NATIONAL NAGPRA • The National NAGPRA Program: • Resources: • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/INDEX.HTM • http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/FHPL_NAGPRA.pdf • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/MANDATES/INDEX.HTM • http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/ONLINEDB/INDEX.HTM • http://www.repatriationfoundation.org/ • http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/3796.htm

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