Flashgordon’s Items of Note

Officials of the Intermountain Region have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), the three cultural items described above are specific ceremonial objects needed by traditional Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional Native American religions by their present-day adherents. Officials of the Intermountain Region also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. […]

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Recent archaeological debates over skeletons and definitions of “Native American” are largely intertwined with Native American repatriation, the implementation of NAGPRA, and moves toward the decolonization of archaeological practice in the United States.
After initial disciplinary protectiveness work and literature on repatriation by archaeologists working with skeletons has given way to an ethic of increased […]

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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has been covered on this site several times in the past. An article about attempts to change the plain language of NAGPRA was covered, as well as the Society for American Archaeology’s stance on unidentified human remains. In fact, in a new book that just came […]

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