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NAGPRA Review Committee Report to Congress 2011
FY2011 National NAGPRA Report
FY2012 NAGPRA Grants
May 9-10, 2012: 46th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting (Santa Fe, NM)
Requests must be received by the following due dates:
- Feb 24, 2012 - Requests for CUI disposition
- Mar 2, 2012 - Requests for presentations by Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, museums, and Federal agencies on the progress made, and any barriers encountered, in implementing NAGPRA
- Apr 20, 2012 - Agenda posted online
Nov. 8-9, 2011: 45th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting ( Reno, NV)
-Agenda
-Meeting Materials
June 21-22, 201:
44th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting (Syracuse, NY)
-Minutes
-Transcripts Vol 1. | Vol 2.
FY11 NAGPRA Consultation Grants Awarded and
Press release
Department of Interior Response to the GAO Report
Notices of Inventory Completion templates
Review Committee forms
Forms, Templates, and Sample Documents
What's New In Training...
March 22, 2012, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (EDT) What Difference Does It Make?: NAGPRA Inventories, Summaries, and Federal Register Notices
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Melanie O’Brien joins National NAGPRA as Notice Coordinator
On January 3, 2012, Melanie O’Brien joined the National NAGPRA Program as the Notice Coordinator. Melanie received an M.A. in Public History from Loyola University Chicago and a B.A. in History from Carleton College (Minnesota). In her career as a public historian, she has worked as an archivist, author, curator, oral historian, and docent at various museums and historical societies in Chicago, Minnesota, and her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. She has worked on a PBS environmental science series, taught university courses and co-authored a local history text. For the last eight years, she managed a high volume of documents and research as part of the tribal trust litigation, where she conducted extensive research on the history and land-use areas of Native American tribes. Senior managers in the Department of the Interior, who formed the interview/selection panel, were impressed with Melanie’s ability to communicate with various audiences and her experience handling a large volume of technical and sensitive documents.
The National NAGPRA Program appreciates the efforts of Alayna Rasile, who, as interim Notice Coordinator, kept the publication momentum going. Alayna will work with Melanie to ensure a smooth transition. Notice submissions are running three times as high as this time last year.
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Upcoming Webinar
The National NAGPRA Program will offer a webinar: What Difference Does It Make?: NAGPRA Inventories, Summaries, and Federal Register Notices (Registration deadline is Friday, March 16) on March 22, 2012. For description of this webinar, instructions for registration, and updates on additional training events, please go the Training page on the National NAGPRA Program website.
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Upcoming Review Committee Meeting
The Spring meeting of the Review Committee will be on May 9-10, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A block of rooms at a group rate of $83.00 are being held at the La Fonda on the Plaza hotel, 100 East San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM, 87501. The group rate will be honored 3 days pre- and post convention dates, based upon availability. For additional information, please visit the Review Committee page.
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Upcoming Training
The Spring meeting of the Review Committee will be preceded by NAGPRA training on May 8. The NAGPRA Baics training is offered at no charge. Space is limited so registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please visit the Training page to download the form.
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted on November 16, 1990, to address the rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations to Native American cultural items, including human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. The Act assigned implementation responsibilities to the Secretary of the Interior. Staff support is provided by the National NAGPRA Program, including:
- Publishing notices for museums and Federal agencies in the Federal Register,
- Creating and maintaining databases, including the Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains Inventories (CUI) Database,
- Making grants to assist museums, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations in fulfilling NAGPRA,
- Assessing civil penalties on museums that fail to comply with provisions of the Act,
- Providing staff support to the NAGPRA Review Committee and for the Annual Report to Congress,
- Providing technical assistance to Federal agencies where there are excavations and discoveries of cultural items on Federal and Indian lands,
- Promulgating implementing regulations, and
- Providing technical assistance through training, website information, reports prepared for the Review Committee, supporting law enforcement investigations and direct personal service.
The National Park Service has compliance obligations for parks, separate from the National NAGPRA Program. National NAGPRA is the omnibus program, the constituent groups of which are all Federal agencies, museums that receive Federal funds, tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations and the public.
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