Alaska tribes and the University of Alaska Fairbanks will receive more than $350,000 in federal grants to bring objects of cultural significance back to the state. via AlaskaBeacon
The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida President Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson said the tribe has been receiving NAGPRA grants since the 1990s to support its continued repatriation work.
Peterson said he’s seen items return to his own clan and knows firsthand the power of the work. “I’ve been left in tears and just with goosebumps — it’s so amazing and so meaningful. It’s exciting to be a part of that. It’s exciting to see our ancestors return.”Tlingit and Haida has repatriated more than 130 objects since its first NAGPRA grant in 1993.
The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida will use its share of that money to visit Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where its specialists will determine which objects of cultural patrimony should be restored to clans.
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