The future of the past : archaeologists, Native Americans, and repatriation

Summary: To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the topic of repatriation. By juxtaposing the divergent views of native peoples, anthropologists, museum professionals, and members of the legal profession, it illustrates the complexity of the repatriation issue.

Record details

ISBN: 0815338341 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780815338345 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

American archaeologists and Native Americans: a relationship under construction / Tamara L. Bray -- The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: background and legislative history / Jack F. Trope, Walter R. Echo-Hawk -- Ethics and the past: reburial and repatriation in American archaeology / Christina E. Garza, Shirley Powell -- Yours, mine, or ours?: conflicts between archaeologists and ethnic groups / Joe Watkins -- Repatriation and the study of human remains / Brenda J. Baker ... [et al.] -- Desecration: an interreligious controversy / Ronald L. Grimes -- A Zuni perspective on repatriation / Edmund J. Ladd -- Sacred under the law: repatriation and religion under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) / Jonathan Haas -- Regenerating identity: repatriation and the Indian frame of mind / Richard W. Hill, Sr. -- Medicine bundles: an indigenous approach to curation / Phillip E. Cash Cash -- On the course of repatriation: process, practice, and progress at the National Museum of History / Thomas W. Killion -- Usurping Native American voice / Larry J. Zimmerman -- Repatriation and community anthropology: the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center / Stephen Loring -- Reflections on Inyan Ceyaka Atonwan (Village at the Rapids): a nineteenth century Wahpeton Dakota summer planting village / Janet D. Spector.