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NEW Grants Coordinator

Sangita Chari has joined the National NAGPRA Program as the grants coordinator. She received her MA in Anthropology from the University of Florida. Ms. Chari brings extensive grants experience and prior knowledge of NAGPRA. Most recently, she worked at the National Building Museum where she managed over $1 million in grants. Prior to that she worked as a grants administrator for the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta and Atlanta Women's Foundation. She has also served as a reviewer for the Corporation for National Service, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Department of Health and Human Services. You can contact her at (202) 354-2203 or NAGPRA_Grants@nps.gov

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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, including the two NAGPRA brochures.

What's New?

May 14, 2008: NAGPRA Training coming to De Pere, WI. Registration due April 25, 2008. Agenda

May 15-16, 2008: Review Committee Meeting coming to De Pere, WI. PDF or Text

June 12, 2008: Solicitation for Nominations for Review Committee due PDF or Text

October 11-12, 2008: Review Committee Meeting in San Diego, CA

Grants Outreach Project, featuring sample grant proposals, online now. Project proposals due March 3, 2008

Future Applicability FINAL RULE PDF or Text

Proposed Rule for Disposition of Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains, 43 CFR 10.11, View Comments

FY2007 National NAGPRA Final report and Manager's Report

NACD has moved! Remember to change your bookmarks.

NAGPRA Grants to Tribes and Museums (PDF), an online brochure.

Two consultation resources:
Cultural affiliation and geographic data from published notices, and
Indian Land Cessions 1784-1894 by State and County.

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

The online Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Inventories Database has a Map that shows provenience of human remains.