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What's New?

June 3-4, 2010: Upcoming Review Committee meeting in Washington, DC, Department of Interior Auditorium. Lodging at the government rate is available at the Willard Hotel, group code OC6, while availability lasts.

FY09 Mid Year Report (May 2009)

October 30-31, 2009: NAGPRA Review Committee meeting in Sarasota, FL
Deadline dates for the meeting are below:

• June 29, 2009: Deadline for requesting, as appropriate, that the Review Committee convene parties and hear a dispute, or otherwise make findings of fact
• July 29, 2009: Deadline for requesting that the Review Committee make a recommendation on a CUI disposition agreement
• August 29, 2009: Deadline for a request to make a presentation to the Review Committee

What's New In Training...

June 30, 2009: How to Write a Successful Federal Register Notice for NAGPRA: Types, Process and Content, Webinar 2-4pm EST

September 14, 2009: New training offered! Determining Cultural Affiliation, Chicago, IL

September 15-16, 2009: Writing and Managing a Successful NAGPRA Grant, Chicago, IL

October 29, 2009: NAGPRA Basics Training, Sarasota, FL (registration info coming soon)

Other News...

June 30, 2009: Last day to apply for a FY2009 NAGPRA Repatriation Grant. Click here for FY2009 Grant Application Guidelines and Forms.

October 2009: Please check back in October for the FY2010 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation application.

The online Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Inventories Database was updated March 2009.

Culturally Affiliated Native American Human Remains Not Published In Notices Report

REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES -
October 11-12, 2008 San Diego, CA

FY2008 National NAGPRA Final Year report

Guidance on alleging that a museum as failed to comply with NAGPRA.

Letter to Potentially Aggrieved Parties Alleging a Museum has failed to comply with the requirements of NAGPRA

For matters related to the Native Hawaiian community, visit The Office of Hawaiian Relations.

June 8 Meeting

On June 8, 2008, the subcommittee of the NAGPRA Review Committee created by Congress to develop the consented-to list of persons from which the Secretary of the Interior appoints the at-large Review Committee member held a telephonic, administrative meeting. Here are the minutes and the transcript of that meeting.

NAGPRA Notice of Regulations Continuation

On June 18, 2009, a notice published in the Federal Register which is identified as "Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals," 28942 [E9-14319]. This is a periodic renewal of the underlying set of regulations pertaining to NAGPRA, 43 CFR Part 10. There is no substantive change to the NAGPRA regulations. Rather, this is part of an obligation of all Federal programs having regulations, which require information collection from private entities, to factor the costs of compliance, which is reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget every three years. This notice is of no impact on the reserved section of the regulations, the culturally unidentifiable disposition rule, 10.11, under review at the Department of the Interior.

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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a Federal law passed in 1990. NAGPRA provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items -- human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony - to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

The National NAGPRA program assists the Secretary of the Interior with some of the Secretary's responsibilities under NAGPRA. Among its chief activities, National NAGPRA develops regulations and guidance for implementing NAGPRA; provides administrative and staff support for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Commitee; assists Indian tribes, Native Alaskan villages and corporations, Native Hawaiian organizations, museums, and Federal agencies with the NAGPRA process; maintains the Native American Consultation Database (NACD) and other online databases; provides training; manages a grants program; investigates allegations of failure to comply; and makes program documents and publications available on the Web.