Flashgordon’s Items of Note

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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In the March 2008 SAA Archaeological Record, an article by Keith W. Kintigh clearly articulated the Society for American Archaeology’s position concerning the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Usually such an article would mean little for indigenous peoples as the Record is primarily concerned with the field of archaeology – its methods, […]

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