Repatriation Reader

Who Owns American Indian Remains?

By: Devon A. Mihesuah (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 2000

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In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, and economic dimensions of this hotly debated issue. While historians and archaeologists debate continuing non-Native interests and obligations, Native American scholars speak to the key cultural issues embedded in their ancestral pasts. A variety of sometimes explosive case studies are considered, ranging from Kennewick Man to the repatriation of Zuni Ahayu:da. Also featured is a detailed discussion of the background, meaning, and applicability of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as well as the text of the act itself.

Devon Abbott Mihesuah is Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University. She is the author or editor of several works, including Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians (Nebraska 1998) and The Roads of My Relations.

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"[A] compact history of a complex and continuing debate."-Museum Anthropology * Museum Anthropology *

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Introduction	p. 1
History
The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology	p. 19
Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of Collecting	p. 37
The Current Debate
An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America's Past	p. 59
Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains	p. 74
American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences	p. 95
Repatriation: A Pawnee's Perspective	p. 106
Legal and Ethical Issues
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History	p. 123
Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians	p. 169
Ethics and the Reburial Controversy	p. 180
Some Scholars' Views on Reburial	p. 190
A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy	p. 200
(Re)Constructing Bodies: Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over Kennewick Man	p. 211
Studies in Resolution
Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems	p. 239
Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922-1980	p. 266
NAGPRA: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological Analysis--A Hopi Perspective	p. 282
A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact of the Kennewick Dispute	p. 294
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act	p. 307
Contributors	p. 321
Source Acknowledgments	p. 325
Index	p. 327
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