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Spilyay Tymoo
December 13
New rules may speed tribal repatriations
The federal govern-
ment has revised the rules
that institutions and gov-
ernment agencies must
follow to comply with the
Native American Graves
Protection and Repatria-
tion Act. This law has long
been hampered by limited
funding, and the unwill-
ingness of many muse-
ums to relinquish Indig-
enous remains and burial
items.
The new regulations
should “strengthen the
authority and role of In-
digenous communities in
the repatriation process”
by requiring institutions to
defer more to tribes’ knowl-
edge of their regions and his-
tories in their decision-mak-
ing about repatriations,” said
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Secretary Deb Haaland, the
first Native American to hold
a U.S. cabinet position.
Thirty-three years ago,
Congress passed the Native
graves and repatriation act, or
NAGPRA, to prevent grave
looting and push museums to
return human remains and
items excavated from Native
American gravesites to tribes.
However, the promise of
repatriation that many tribal
nations once saw in the
law has not been fully re-
alized, with federal data
showing institutions con-
tinue to store about half
of the 200,000 ancestral
remains they reported
holding following passage
of the 1990 law.
Archaeologists and sci-
entists at some of the
nation’s top universities
and museums have ex-
ploited loopholes in
NAGPRA to delay or re-
sist turning over holdings
reported under the law,
according to an investiga-
tion by ProPublica.
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