The Field Museum and other museums in the United States are taking steps to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a law that has been in effect for 34 years. This law aims to address the long history of disrespect and dishonor towards Indigenous human remains and burial sites. Museums, archaeologists, and federal agencies have disturbed burial grounds and removed thousands of Native American and Native Hawaiian human remains and funerary items for display or study.
The Field Museum temporarily covered up some exhibits to ensure compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. . These actions may seem sudden but they are implementing a law that turns 34 this year. These museums and others like them are working to follow federal law and get on the right side of history.
To help put a stop to these practices and give Indigenous communities a greater role in repatriation, Congress enacted the bipartisan NAGPRA in 1990. The law requires museums and federal agencies to identify Native human remains, funerary items, and objects of cultural significance in their collections and collaborate with tribes and native Hawaiian organizations to repatriate and return them.
The new rule strengthens the authority and role of tribes and native Hawaiian organizations in the repatriation process. It fixes long-standing barriers to timely and successful disposition and repatriation by imposing new deadlines. The revisions also increase transparency and reporting of holdings and collections.
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