1990

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

United States; Native nations and families

NAGPRA created duties concerning Native remains and specified cultural items, including repatriation by covered institutions. It challenged the treatment of ancestors as museum property or scientific specimens.

Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.

Context / qualification

Coverage is legally defined; not a blanket rule applying identically to every collection or institution.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), conclusion

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