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What's New?

The Review Committee will hold its next meeting via teleconference on November 2, 2004. See Federal Register notice for details.

FY2005 NAGPRA Grant guidelines and proposal forms are now available online.

The Secretary of the Interior has appointed three members to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee. See DOI press release for details.

The National NAGPRA FY04 Midyear Report is now available online in PDF format. Other National NAGPRA reports are also available.

The Native American Consultation Database (NACD) has been updated (as of May 28, 2004).

The Spring 2004 National NAGPRA Update newsletter is now available online.

National NAGPRA has initiated regional consultations for the development of 43 CFR 10.7, Disposition of unclaimed human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony.

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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a Federal law passed in 1990. NAGPRA provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items -- human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony - to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

The National NAGPRA program assists the Secretary of the Interior with some of the Secretary's responsibilities under NAGPRA, and focuses on NAGPRA implementation outside of the National Park System. National NAGPRA is a program of the National Park Service's National Center for Cultural Resources.

Among its chief activities, National NAGPRA develops regulations and guidance for implementing NAGPRA; provides administrative and staff support for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Commitee; assists Indian tribes, Native Alaskan villages and corporations, Native Hawaiian organizations, museums, and Federal agencies with the NAGPRA process; maintains the Native American Consultation Database (NACD) and other online databases; provides training; manages a grants program; and makes program documents and publications available on the Web.

 
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