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What's New?
National NAGPRA Training Video Series on YouTube
NAGPRA Review Committee Report to Congress 2011
FY2011 National NAGPRA Report
FY2012 NAGPRA Grants
FY2012 NAGPRA Repatriation Grant Awards
45th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting ( Reno, NV)
-Minutes
-Transcripts Vol 1. | Vol 2
May 9-10, 2012: 46th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting (Santa Fe, NM)
November 28-29, 2012 : 47th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting (Washington, DC, National Museum of the American Indian)
Requests must be received by the following due dates:
- Jul 5, 2012 - Requests to consider dispute
- Aug 10, 2012 - Requests for Findings of Fact
- Sep 21, 2012 - Requests for CUI disposition
- Oct 1, 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
- Oct 29, 2012 - Agenda posted online
If necessary, a telephonic meeting will be held Dec. 6, 2012 - 2 - 4pm EST
What's New In Training...
June 28, 2012, 2:00 to 4:00 pm (EDT) - NAGPRA Notices: Types, Process & Content
July 25, 2012, 2:00 to 4:00 pm (EDT) - State Protocols and NAGPRA |
National NAGPRA Launches On-Demand NAGPRA Training Video Series
The National NAGPRA Program is excited to announce the launch of its YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/user/NationalNAGPRA, the channel now features eight training videos covering the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and its implementing regulations. In addition to an in-depth treatment of the law, the videos include grant-writing tips, first-person narratives, and program statistics. The eight segments in the series, which are available on-demand, are titled:
NAGPRA Notices
NAGPRA Grants
Consultation under NAGPRA
Decision-making under NAGPRA
NAGPRA Civil Penalties
NAGPRA Review Committee
The Development of NAGPRA
NAGPRA
In the course of producing the video series, the National NAGPRA Program conducted fifty interviews with Indian tribe and Native Hawaiian organization members, museum and scientific organization officials, Federal agency representatives, and cultural heritage stewards in ten cities nationwide. These interviews in themselves comprise an important archive for studying the history of NAGPRA. If you experience any problems using the new channel, or have suggestions about how to maximize its use, please contact us at NAGPRA_Info@nps.gov.
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Minor Amendments to NAGPRA Regulations
On April 18, 2012, minor amendments to the NAGPRA regulations published in the Federal Register. Comments on these amendments will be received through June 18, 2012. After consideration of the comments, the amendments will be processed within the Department of the Interior to become final. A further notice will publish of the final amendments.
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Upcoming Training Opportunities
May 8 - NAGPRA Basics Training prior to the Review Committee meeting, La Fonda Hotel
May 22-23 - NPI training: Writing and Managing a Successful Grant, Santa Fe, NM, register at http://www.npi.org (scholarships and travel grants available)
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Archive
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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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