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Notice: I am NOT suggesting non-Indigenous, non-BIPOC people post with most of these hashtags. Follow, ally, educate yourself, etc. but don’t appropriate is always good advice for allies.

https://turtleisland.blog/indigenous-fediverse-hashtags/

#LanguageRevitalization
#MMIW
#MMIWG2S
#MutualAid
#MutualAidMonday
#NAGPRA
#NAHM
#NationalAboriginalDay
#Native
#NativeAmerican
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#NativeMastodon
#NativesVote
#NDN
#NoMoreStolenSisters
#NotYourMascot
#OrangeShirtDay
#Powwow
#Powwows
#ProtectICWA

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How Long Delays in Repatriation Let Scientists Damage #Native Remains With #Government Funds
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Federal agencies have awarded millions of dollars to scientific studies on #NativeAmerican human remains, undermining the goals of #NAGPRA as tribes fight for #repatriation.

#Utah #NewMexico #Arizona #Pueblo #Hopi #Research #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/delayed-repatriation-allows-destructive-research-native-american-remains?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Displaying Objects That Belong to Native American Tribes?
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Only a small percentage of works donated by Charles and Valerie Diker have clear ownership histories. Experts say this could mean objects are stolen or fake.

Meanwhile, the Met has been slow to ask tribes for information about the items.

#Repatriation #Museums #Art #Relics #NativeAmerican #NAGPRA #NYC

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-met-museum-native-american-collections?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Senate Committee Probes Top Universities, Museums Over Failures to Repatriate Human Remains
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U.S. senators want five institutions to explain why they continue to hold thousands of #NativeAmerican remains and belongings, following reporting from ProPublica and NBC News.

“It’s immoral, it’s hypocritical, and it has to stop,” one senator said.

#Repatriation #Museums #Schools #Universities #College #NAGPRA

https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-probes-universities-museums-nagpra-failures?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Sweeping #Repatriation Reform Bill Unanimously Passes #Illinois House of Representatives
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If signed into law, the legislation would create a protected cemetery for the reburial of repatriated #NativeAmerican ancestors and establish a committee of tribal leaders to review state projects that may disturb culturally significant sites.

#Museum #University #Relic #NAGPRA

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-house-representatives-passes-repatriation-reform-bill?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The NAGPRA Nexus, Institutional Integrity, and the Evolving Role of Archaeological Laboratories by Amanda Roberts Thompson et al.
#Nagpra #Archaeology @academicchatter @histodons https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/nagpra-nexus-institutional-integrity-and-the-evolving-role-of-archaeological-laboratories/9792A90811AF5CC351B2DD59BD5529A7

Dozens of Museums and Universities Pledge to Return Native American Remains. Few Have Funded the Effort.
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Reporting from nearly 50 local newsrooms, based on ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project,” has sparked a wave of apologies and commitment to returning ancestral remains. But without funding for the work tribal nations could still face empty promises.

#Repatriation #NAGPRA #Museums #Universities #NativeAmerican

https://www.propublica.org/article/museums-universities-pledge-to-return-native-american-remains?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

For decades, #UCBerkeley has been hosting a horrorshow of bones stolen from #Native families, in violation of basic human decency as well as, more recently, state and federal laws.

All so Professor White (!) could perpetuate the colonial anthropological gaze. The university apologized. Professor White hasn’t. Only some of the family members have been returned.

Graham Lee Brewer (#Cherokee) reports in collab with ProPublica.

#Indigenous #NAGPRA #Berkeley #California

https://www.propublica.org/article/berkeley-professor-taught-suspected-native-american-remains-repatriation

NEWS: Coming out of @UCBerkeley about their osteology teaching collection, and how much of it is comprised of #IndigenousAmericans, despite #NAGPRA, and that #TImWhite decried it would be impossible to know this, and let it go on. Learn more: https://youtu.be/w6I5ICH5UAE

The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds
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For decades, Dickson Mounds Museum in #Illinois displayed the open graves of more than 200 #Indigenous people.

30 years after a federal law required museums to begin returning remains, the statewide #museum system still holds thousands.

#NAGPRA #Repatriation

https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-dickson-mounds-museum

RT @NagpraNews@twitter.com

⁦@Interior@twitter.com⁩ Dept. has extended the public comment period for the proposed changes to the #NAGPRA regulations to 1/31/23. This is YOUR chance to provide feedback on the regs! #Museums #Tribes #NativeAmerican #NativeRights #NativeTwitter #NAGPRAnews https://www.bia.gov/service/tribal-consultations/proposed-rule-native-american-graves-protection-and-repatriation-act

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NagpraNews/status/1616461659773575168

The remains of more than 110,000 Native American ancestors are still held by museums, universities and federal agencies. This is despite the 1990 US #NAGPRA law which called for remains to be returned to descendants or tribal nations.
What went wrong?
https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains

“Three decades after legislation pushed for the return of Native American remains to Indigenous communities, many of the nation’s top museums and universities still have the remains of thousands of people in their collections.”

This database lists every institution that still has remains that must be returned to their respective communities based on federal law.

https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/

#NativeAmerican #Indigenous #Museums #Universities #Congress #Legislation #NAGPRA #Repatriation

Weiss should know better but she's a racist in sheep's clothing. #NAGPRA #IndigenousDataSovereignty http://www.science.org/content/article/archaeology-society-hosted-talk-against-returning-indigenous-remains-some-want-new

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/harvard-museum-says-it-has-hair-clippings-from-700-native-children-who-attended-indian-boarding-schools Don’t even know where to start with all that’s wrong here - pretty damning for #harvard purporting that #NAGPRA would not apply to #hair and could even suggest anything in the context of #indianschools could be given freely

H.R.2930, the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act of 2021 (STOP Act). The STOP Act now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.

The STOP Act builds on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a 1990 law that made it illegal to traffic Native American cultural items, funerary objects and objects of patrimony

H.R.2930
#NAGPRA #Protection #Repatriation #Act #STOP #Safeguard #Patrimony #Graves #law

https://www.indian.senate.gov/news/press-release/murkowski-applauds-senate-passage-stop-act

The items being returned are just a tiny fraction of an estimated 870,000 Native American artifacts — including nearly 110,000 human remains — in the possession of the nation’s most prestigious colleges, museums and even the federal government that under federal law are supposed to be returned to the tribes
https://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/wounded-knee-artifacts-to-be-returned-to-tribe/article_ed499106-48e5-11ed-8dec-17722c763721.html

#Lakota #Sioux #artifacts #WoundedKneeMassacre 1990 #NAGPRA
#FoundersMuseum #PineRidge