Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?Devon Abbott Mihesuah U of Nebraska Press, 2000 M10 1 - 335 pages In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu: da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself. |
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... dead along with their burial goods have been displayed in museums in dozens of countries . In central Mexico Mayan ruins have been plundered by treasure hunters , and archae- ologists still excavate in hopes of finding artifacts ...
... dead along with their burial goods have been displayed in museums in dozens of countries . In central Mexico Mayan ruins have been plundered by treasure hunters , and archae- ologists still excavate in hopes of finding artifacts ...
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... dead Indians were decapitated by order of the surgeon general of the army , for " Indian Crania Study . " In 1900 at least forty - five hundred skulls and bones were transferred from the Army Medical Museum to the Smith- sonian ...
... dead Indians were decapitated by order of the surgeon general of the army , for " Indian Crania Study . " In 1900 at least forty - five hundred skulls and bones were transferred from the Army Medical Museum to the Smith- sonian ...
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... dead and sacred items , but they were not able to do much about it until the late 1960s , when numerous national American Indians groups began forming . These groups , as well as local and state organizations and writers such as Vine ...
... dead and sacred items , but they were not able to do much about it until the late 1960s , when numerous national American Indians groups began forming . These groups , as well as local and state organizations and writers such as Vine ...
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... dead , and state and federal legislation . Trope and Echo - Hawk explain that Nagpra is the first legislation " to consider what is sacred from an Indian perspective . " Vine Deloria Jr. , in chapter 8 , " Secularism , Civil Religion ...
... dead , and state and federal legislation . Trope and Echo - Hawk explain that Nagpra is the first legislation " to consider what is sacred from an Indian perspective . " Vine Deloria Jr. , in chapter 8 , " Secularism , Civil Religion ...
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... dead , thus they have no natural right to dig up anything at all . " Their argument , reprinted from American Antiquity , is especially interesting in that it is the revision deemed acceptable to American Antiquity , their first essay ...
... dead , thus they have no natural right to dig up anything at all . " Their argument , reprinted from American Antiquity , is especially interesting in that it is the revision deemed acceptable to American Antiquity , their first essay ...
Contents
1 The Representations of Indian Bodies in NineteenthCentury American Anthropology | 19 |
Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting | 37 |
The Current Debate | 57 |
The Looting of Americas Past | 59 |
4 Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains | 74 |
5 American Indians Anthropologists Pothunters and Repatriation Ethical Religious and Political Differences | 95 |
A Pawnees Perspective | 106 |
Legal and Ethical Issues | 121 |
11 A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy | 200 |
Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man | 211 |
Studies in Resolution | 237 |
13 Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems | 239 |
The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia 19221980 | 266 |
A New Beginning Not the End for Osteological Analysis A Hopi Perspective | 282 |
16 A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute | 294 |
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | 307 |
7 The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Background and Legislative History | 123 |
8 Secularism Civil Religion and the Religious Freedom of American Indians | 169 |
9 Ethics and the Reburial Controversy | 180 |
10 Some Scholars Views on Reburial | 190 |
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agency or museum Ahayu:da Alert Bay American Graves Protection American Indian ancestors archae archaeologists Arizona artifacts associated funerary objects beliefs Bieder body bones burial civil religion claim collection collectors committee concerns Cong cultural affiliation cultural items cultural patrimony dead Echo-Hawk ethics excavation federal agencies groups Hopi Hopi Tribe human remains Indian remains Indian tribes indigenous individuals Kennewick Kintigh Klesert Kwakiutl legislation looters Meighan NAGPRA National Museum Native American Native American Graves Native American human Native Hawaiian organization negotiations ologists Oregonian past Pawnee physical anthropologists political pothunters Potlatch prehistoric Press Protection and Repatriation Pueblo of Zuni reburial religion Religious Freedom remains and associated remains and funerary Repatriation Act repatriation movement request sacred objects scientific skeletal remains Smithsonian Institution Society supra note 108 Texas tion traditional tribe or Native University Zuni Pueblo Zuni Tribal Council Zuni Tribe