About NAGPRA
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a Federal law passed in 1990. NAGPRA provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items - human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony - to lineal descendants, and culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations.
NAGPRA and Oregon Executive Order 17-12 at Oregon State University
Oregon State University is committed to completing the survey of its collection of cultural items, in storage and on display, that may be associated with the Nine Tribes of Oregon. Oregon Executive Order 17-12 establishes Task Force on Oregon Tribal Cultural items to determine a process for soliciting information from state public institutions and agencies about items they may have in storage or on display associated with Oregon Tribes.
Learn more about NAGPRA at OSU
- Meet the director of the NAGPRA Office, Dawn Marie Alapisco
- "Equity Matters - in life and in death" (May 26, 2020)
- "Tribes of Oregon, Oregon State work together to build facility to facilitate repatriation and return tribal cultural items and Ancestors" (Oct. 31, 2024)
Resources
- Office of the Vice President for Mission and Impact
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- president's Commission on Indigenous Affairs
- Oregon State Legislature Legislative Commission on Indian Services (LCIS)
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Archaelogical Investigations
- National Park Service Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act