The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans and Repatriation

267 Pages·2001·5.85 MB·English

by  Tamara L. Bray

The Future of the Past

THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
ARCHAEOLOGISTS, NATIVE AMERICANS,
AND REPATRIATION
edited by
TAMARA L. BRAY
Published in 2001 by
Routledge Publishing, Inc.
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New York NY 10016
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Transferred to Digital Printing 2010
Copyright © 2001 by Tamara L. Bray
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Bray, Tamara L.
The future of the past: archaeologists, Native Americans,
and repatriation / edited by Tamara L. Bray
ISBN: 0-8153-3834-1
Includes bibliography and references.
Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint
but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent.
This book is dedicated to Ed Ladd, whose gentle approach to the
work of repatriation helped build bridges of understanding.

Contents
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1 American Archaeologists and Native Americans:
A Relationship Under Construction
Tamara L. Bray 1
2 The Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History
Jack F. Trope and Walter R. Echo-Hawk 9
CURRENT ISSUES AND DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
3 Ethics and the Past: Reburial and Repatriation
in American Archaeology
Christina E. Garza and Shirley Powell 3 7
4 Yours, Mine, or Ours?: Conflicts between Archaeologists and Ethnic
Groups
Joe Wntkins 57
5 Repatriation and the Study of Human Remains
Brenda J. Baker, Tamara L. Varney, Richard G.
Wilkinson, Lisa M. Anderson, and Maria A. Liston 69
6 Desecration: An Interreligious Controversy
Ronald L, Grimes 91
7 A Zuni Perspective on Repatriation
Edmund J. Ladd 107
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8 Sacred Under the Law: Repatriation and Religion
Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA)
Jonathan Haas 117
9 Regenerating Identity: Repatriation and the Indian
Frame of Mind
Richard W. Hill, Sr. 127
10 Medicine Bundles: An Indigenous Approach
to Curation
Phillip E. Cash Cash 139
FUTURE PROSPECTS
11 On the Course of Repatriation: Process, Practice,
and Progress at the National Museum of Natural History
Thomas W. Killion 149
12 Usurping Native American Voice
Larry J. Zimmerman 169
13 Repatriation and Community Anthropology:
The Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center
Stephen Lor ing 185
14 Reflections on Inyan Ceijaka Atonwan
(Village at the Rapids): A Nineteenth Century
Wahpeton Dakota Summer Planting Village
Janet D. Spector 201
APPENDICES
Appendix 1
Public Law 101-185 National Museum of the
American Indian Act (NMAIA) 215
Appendix 2
Public Law 101-601 Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) 233
Appendix 3
Agreement between the National Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and The
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Regarding Cheyenne Funerary Objects in the
Collection of the National Museum of Natural History 245
Index 249
Contributors
Lisa M. Anderson is the coordinator for compliance with the Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act at the New York State Museum. She is
also a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the State University of New York at
Albany.
Brenda J. Baker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State Univer-
sity. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in
1992 and directed the NAGPRA program at the New York State Museum from
1994 to 1998. Her research interests focus on bioarchaeology, human osteology
and paleopathology in North America and Egypt.
Tamara L. Bray is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State Universi-
ty. She received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Between 1991 and 1995, she worked in the Office of Repatriation at the Smith-
sonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. She is co-editor of the
volume Reckoning With the Dead (1994) and author of several articles on the sub-
ject of repatriation.
Phillip E. Cash Cash (Cayuse, Nez Perce) has had extensive experience working
in the Native community in the areas of anthropology, repatriation and cultural
linguistics. He recently earned his M.A. from the American Indian Studies pro-
gram at the University of Arizona and plans to continue his graduate studies in
the area of linguistics, focusing on the endangered languages of the Columbia
Plateau region.
Walter R. Echo-Hawk, is a Senior Staff Attorney for the Native American Rights
Fund in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a political science degree from Oklahoma
State University and a law degree from the University of New Mexico. He helped
to lead the campaign to obtain passage of the Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act. Among his publications is the award-winning book Battle-
fields and Burial Grounds (1994).
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