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Jennifer
Jennifer Schansberg
NAGPRA Consultant
National Park Service
NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION REVIEW COMMITTEE
PURPOSE: Monitor and review the implementation of the inventory and
identification process and repatriation activities required under sections 5, 6,
and 7 of the American Indian Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
AUTHORITY: Section 8 of Public Law 101-601, November 16, 1990.
TERMS: Three or six years.
MEMBERSHIP: Seven members.
MEMBER TERM EXPIRES NOMINATING SOURCE
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Dr. James Bradley June, 2003 American Association of
Robert S. Peabody Museum Museums
Phillips Academy
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
telephone: (508) 749-4490
fax: (508) 749-4495
Mr. Armand Minthorn June, 2003 Confederated Tribes of
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla the Umatilla Indian
Indian Reservation Reservation
PO Box 638
Pendleton, Oregon 97801
telephone: (541) 276-3165
fax: (541) 276-3095
traditional religious leader
Dr. Tessie Naranjo June, 2000 Pueblo of Acoma
P. O. Box 1807 Hui Malama I Na Kupuna
Espaņola, New Mexico 87532 'O Hawai'i Nei
telephone: (505) 753-3736
fax: (505) 747-3389
Dr. John O'Shea June, 2003 Society for American
Museum of Anthropology Archaeology
University of Michigan American Museum of
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079 Natural History
telephone: (313) 763-5795 LA County Natural
fax: (313) 763-7783 History Museum
email: [log in to unmask] Peabody Museum-Harvard
University
P.A. Hearst Museum-
UC Berkeley
Mr. Lawrence H. Hart September, 2001 Cheyenne and Arapaho
Route 1, Box 3130 Tribes
Clinton, Oklahoma 73601 Forest County Potawa
telephone: (405) 323-5320 tomi Community
fax: (405) 323-6225
traditional religious leader
Dr. Martin E. Sullivan June, 2000 American Association
Heard Museum of Museums
22 E. Monte Vista Road Hui Malama I Na Kupuna
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-1480 'O Hawai'i Nei
telephone: (602) 251-0227
fax: (602) 252-9757
seventh position currently vacant six years from concurrence of first
appointment six committee members
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PRESS RELEASE -- US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Contact: John Wright
For Release: July 18, 1997
202/208-6416
Interior Secretary Babbitt Appoints Members to the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Review Committee
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt announced the appointment of
five private citizens as members of the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Review Committee. Appointments to the committee were selected from
nominations the Secretary received from Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian
organizations, and national museum and scientific organizations.
"The issues before this very talented committee are challenging and
complex," Babbitt noted. "I look forward to their recommendations as we work to
develop a process for disposition of culturally unidentifiable Native American
human remains."
Two original members were reappointed for three year terms to ensure the
committee's continuity:
Dr. Tessie Naranjo is a tribal member of Santa Clara Pueblo in New
Mexico, where she has lived most of her life. She is a founding board
member of the Keepers of the Treasures, a native cultural council
dedicated to the preservation, celebration, and enhancement of Native
American cultural heritage. She served as committee chair since 1993.
Dr. Martin Sullivan is director of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1995, he was appointed by President Clinton to a four-year term as
chair of the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property which
advises the State Department and the Customs Service in implementation
of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property. He is also a founding
trustee of the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation.
Three new members were appointed for six year terms:
Dr. James Bradley is director of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of
Archaeology at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He is an
archeologist and historian, with special interests in native peoples of
the Northeast and in Native American metallurgy. He serves on the
Committee on Repatriation of the Society for American Archaeology.
Mr. Armand Minthorn serves on the board of trustees of the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. He helped establish
Tamustilik (the Umatilla Tribal Cultural Center) and the Umatilla
Cultural Resource Protection Program. He serves as the northwest area
representative to the Commission on Repatriation and Burial Sites
Protection of the National Congress of American Indians. He is a
traditional religious leader of the Umatilla Longhouse.
Dr. John O'Shea is curator of Great Lakes Archaeology and Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. He
has studied issues of archeological site complexity and variation in
both the United States and Europe, with special emphasis on funerary
practices.
The seven member committee -- including Mr. Lawrence Hart, a Southern
Cheyenne traditional religious leader appointed in 1996, and a yet to be named
seventh member to be appointed by the Secretary from a list prepared by the
current six members -- is charged with monitoring, reviewing, and assisting in
implementation of certain requirements of the Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act.
The Act requires that federal agencies and museums that receive federal
funds provide information about Native American human remains, funerary objects,
sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony in their collections to lineal
descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations and repatriate
those items in certain circumstances. The law also provides additional
protection for Native American graves on federal or tribal lands.
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