Day 2 – 10/12: Shifting the Burden: It’s a Right, Not a Fight
Shannon Martin, Gun Lake Pottawatomi & Ojibwe, Lynx Clan, Executive Director & Founder of Cultural Pathways Group, LLC; Melanie O’Brien, Program Manager, National NAGPRA Program; Shannon O’Loughlin, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, CEO & Attorney, Association on American Indian Affairs
The current NAGPRA regulations have been strongly criticized as creating loopholes and burdens that the Act, and its originators, never intended. This presentation will provide case studies and insight on how the regulations can be revised to shift the burden away from Native Nations and better implement NAGPRA’s purpose of returning Ancestors and culture that institutions and agencies have never had a “right of possession” to.
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