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1 online resource (267 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 American Archaeologists and Native Americans: A Relationship Under Construction; 2 The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History; CURRENT ISSUES AND DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES; 3 Ethics and the Past: Reburial and Repatriation in American Archaeology; 4 Yours, Mine, or Ours?: Conflicts between Archaeologists and Ethnic Groups; 5 Repatriation and the Study of Human Remains; 6 Desecration: An Interreligious Controversy; 7 A Zuni Perspective on Repatriation |
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8 Sacred Under the Law: Repatriation and Religion Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)9 Regenerating Identity: Repatriation and the Indian Frame of Mind; 10 Medicine Bundles: An Indigenous Approach to Curation; FUTURE PROSPECTS; 11 On the Course of Repatriation: Process, Practice, and Progress at the National Museum of Natural History; 12 Usurping Native American Voice; 13 Repatriation and Community Anthropology: The Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center |
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14 Reflections on Inyan Ceijaka Atonwan (Village at the Rapids): A Nineteenth Century Wahpeton Dakota Summer Planting VillageAppendix 1 Public Law 101-185 National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA); Appendix 2 Public Law 101-601 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA); Appendix 3 Agreement between the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Regarding Cheyenne Funerary Objects in the Collection of the National Museum of Natural History; Index |
| Summary |
To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the topic of repatriation. By juxtaposing the divergent views of native peoples, anthropologists, museum professionals, and members of the legal profession, it illustrates the complexity of the repatriation issue |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136543524 |
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113654352X |
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