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10/31: Native Americans and NAGPRA

Lakota ghost shirt

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

Nelson D. Schwartz, “Far from the Reservation, but Still Sacred?” NY Times 8/12/2007

  • 9th Circuit Court opinion, as summarized in the Yuma Sun (Feb. 21st, 2008)
  • Arizona Clean Fuels update (Feb. 5th, 2008)

Douglas P. Lackey, “Ethics and Native American reburials: a philosopher’s view of two decades of NAGPRA,” in The Ethics of Archaeology, C. Scarre and G. Scarre, eds. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2006), pp. 146-162.

Mark O’Neill, “Repatriation and its Discontents: the Glasgow Experience,” in Who Owns Objects? (pp. 105-128).

  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law

    • Additional Reading
      • 09/12: The issue, head-on
      • 09/26: Loot, part 1: colonialism, theft, and the market
      • 10/03: Loot, part 2: the nation-state and cultural blackmail
      • 10/17: Competing Priorities
      • 10/24: The Hague Convention and national patrimony
      • 10/31: Native Americans and NAGPRA
      • 11/07: Archaeologists and the State Department
      • 11/14: The Long View
      • 11/21: Dead and gone?
      • 11/28: What’s to be done?
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