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08/09/2024

NAGPRA grants for FY 24 announced today.

WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service today announced $3 million in grants to 13 Tribes and 21 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Enacted in 1...

12/07/2023

https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-27040

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Systematic Processes: Disposition or Repatriation of Native American Human Remains, Funerary Objects, Sacred Objects, and Objects of Cultural Patrimony

10/16/2023

Data on Fiscal Year 2023 available:

National NAGPRA Program's Tableau Public profile. View interactive data visualizations published by this author.

06/12/2023

Review Committee meeting recordings are now available.

Wednesday and Thursday, June 7 and 8, 2023 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee (Committee) will hold an in-person meeting June 7-8, 2023, in Bloomington, Indiana, at the Indiana University Memorial Union as noticed in the F...

10/18/2022

More documents now available to assist with reviewing the proposed regulations.

The Department of Interior issues regulations to interpret and implement the law. Regulations have the force and effect of law.

10/13/2022

Interior Department Takes Next Steps to Update Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Interior today announced that proposed revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s regulations are available for public comment.

09/08/2022

The University of Alabama has more than 10,000 Native American human remains in its possession, according to a federal notice published by the National Park Service last week.

07/28/2022

BARRE, Mass. (AP) — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they’ve sat for more than a century in a museum in rural Massachusetts.

02/10/2022

We meet the new official hired by the National Park Service to help repatriate Native human remains and cultural objects. Plus, we break down the dispute with the Nooksack Tribe, and a history lesson on the game of football

02/01/2022

The National Park Service has hired a full-time investigator to enhance oversight and museum compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) for the first time in in the Act’s 31-year history.