Basic consultation requirements of NAGPRA for federal land managers: What's a manager to do?
✍ Scribed by James D. Wilde; Clifford Brown
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1048-4078
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This article introduces the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA)
and outlines basic compliance procedures for most federal agency land managers. NAGPRA is actually civil rights
law, but federal cultural or natural resource managers generally are assigned responsibility for NAGPRA compliance
within affected agencies. The Act deals only with “NAGPRA objects,” defined in NAGPRA as Native
American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. NAGPRA has three
basic parts. The first deals with collections under federal control or in museums prior to 1990. The second deals
with intentional removal or inadvertent discovery of NAGPRA objects. The third deals with criminal penalties for
illegal trafficking in NAGPRA objects. This article addresses only the first two parts, with the primary focus on
the second part; that is, processes required and recommended for intentional removal and inadvertent
discovery of NAGPRA objects on federal lands. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.