The 2024 Updated NAGPRA Regulations - HeVo 92

On today’s episode, Jessica chats with Krystiana Krupa (NAGPRA Program Officer for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Blythe Morrison (Collections Manager at BLM Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum and a citizen of the Blackfeet Nation), Jayne-Leigh Thomas (Director of the NAGPRA Office at Indiana University), and Chance Ward (NAGPRA Coordinator for History Colorado; Lakota [Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe]). The panel talks about the 2024 regulation changes to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), including Federal Collection Reporting, Inventory Resubmission Deadlines, and Duty of Care. The discussion spends extra time with Duty of Care’s three main components: a) museums must consult with tribes on how to care for a collection b) deference to tribal knowledge c) access, research, and exhibition is prohibited without consent. The panelists also discuss how they’ve been applying the new regulations and what’s been successful for them, as well as main challenges that they are experienced or heard. Finally, the episode gets into the main questions each panelist has received, how they answer those, and what resources they refer people to (see below!). If you have a question for this panel, send them to jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org and if Jessica receives enough questions, the panel has agreed to do a follow up episode to answer them.

Transcripts

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/92

Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN

• Heritage Voices Episode 79 on INSTEP with Chance and Jayne-Leigh

• Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP) Web Page

• Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP) Facebook Page

• Nationwide NAGPRA Community of Practice (Note that many regions, states, etc. also have their own Communities of Practice.)

• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Regulations (Revised regulations effective January 2024.)

• National NAGPRA YouTube

• National NAGPRA Webinars

• National Preservation Institution

• Duty of Care FAQ

• 2024 NAGPRA Regulations In the Code of Federal Regulation

• Bader, Carbaugh, Davis, Krupa, Malhi 2023 article: “Biological samples taken from Native American Ancestors are human remains under NAGPRA”

• Recap of 2024 SAA NAGPRA day

• Krupa, Thomas, Hawkins, Olds, and Willard 2023 article: “Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA”

• Association of American Indian Affairs Annual Repatriation Conference

• Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums (See Annual Conference)

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