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Spirits of Place: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and Its Legacy

2022/3/21
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Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains

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In November of 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) into law. Now, more than 30 years later, we look back at both the letter and spirit of the law, which aims to return tens of thousands of stolen Indigenous remains and funerary artifacts to their tribes.