Talk:Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

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Contents 1 NAGPRA, PROS and CONS 2 Revamping of the article 3 Canada? 4 Editing Proposal

[edit] NAGPRA, PROS and CONS

I believe NAGPRA needed to be created, because so many of the early scientists in America blatantly dissrespected the sacred remains of the Native American ancestors.

There is a cost however. NAGPRA has been used as a tool to rebury the physical remains of ancient people whose actual ancestral links have not been established to the current Native Americans. Kennewick man is by no means the only example of this.

There is a pre-conceived idea that all human remains dating before 1492 must be Native American, and therefore reburied. This sucks, because I think valuable evidence of caucasian peoples in America has been destroyed because of a Political agenda.

Very tall, red-haired people did exist in central western Nevada long ago, and there remains have dissapreared. The Indian tribes of that area (Paiute) even have a tradition of these red-giants.

But the physical evidence seems to be reburied. 216.99.204.85 05:05, 25 August 2004

[edit] Revamping of the article

I just reviewed the article for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America. I do have some comments to improve this article. The NAGPRA article is currently much more than s stub, but still lacking substance. Some suggestions in improvement include having more info on the background of this act and the scope of coverage of this act, as well as links to the actual federal codes establishing NAGPRA and the NAGPRA home-page. By presenting these these coverages more fully first, when the article then covers the problematic issues such as the repatriation issue mentioned in the article, the reader will become better aware of the problems and the possible solutions. CJLippert 22:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canada?

How does this law affect tribes that are based (now legally) in canada but have artifacts in the US. Also the same question for tribes in mexico (papago tribe traverses this border)?

[edit] Editing Proposal

I propose to edit this article by adding a detailed overview of the provisions of NAGPRA, including definitions of objects and land which this act treats. Links to the NAGPRA home page should also be added. Scheherazade510 01:46, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 11:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC)