Melanie O’Brien of the National NAGPRA program led a workshop on Tuesday for museum and institution officials walking them through impending changes to the federal law, walking them though NAGPRA process from start to finish. “This is a really complicated and complex area of repatriation because we don't have a law that we can complain about.” “The first step that we're engaged in right now is developing country-specific strategies that are based on that country's laws, policies, institution guidance and policies, because every country’s laws and policies are different,” O’Loughlin said.

The Association on American Indian Affairs is currently developing that strategy, the Association’s chief executive and attorney Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) said on Thursday. I do not yet know what the revised process for repatriation will look like, but I do know that we will move more quickly in responding to repatriation requests,” Lippert said.Īnother panel of academics, tribal leaders, and government officials spoke on developing strategies for international repatriation. “I told myself when I was writing this, that I wasn't going to make a promise that I couldn't keep. She said she plans for her office to do a complete assessment of its repatriation process to determine how to decrease the amount of time it takes them to respond to repatriation requests. “I would not have taken on this role if I were nearly coming on board to be a caretaker for the status quo,” Lippert said on Wednesday, November 8. Lippert was hired this month as the museum’s new repatriation program manager, She is the first woman and first Native American to hold her position. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s newest hire, Dorothy Lippert (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) spoke about the new vision of repatriation at the National Museum of Natural History. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) delivered a keynote about her new novel, Warrior Girl Unearthed, a thriller she described as a “Native Laura Croft,”with a twist: Instead of robbing tombs, her main character robs museums to take back her ancestors. New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste.

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