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Host: Shawn Spruce
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the latest institution going through a repatriation process starting this month. The museum, which has dozens of human remains and hundreds of Indigenous funerary objects in its collection, hasn’t been in compliance with NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act of 1990. The University of Montana-Missoula handed over a handful of items that will now be in the care of the Fort Peck Interpretive Center. The tribes continue to fight for the remainder of the university’s Native collections. Several other institutions still have collections containing thousands of human remains and objects that fall under NAGPRA but it’s been slow work by tribes to get them back.
Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce talks with Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw), executive director of the Association on American Indian Affairs; Steve Murray, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History; and Dyan Youpee (Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota), Fort Peck Tribes cultural resource director and tribal historic preservation officer about current efforts.
Break 1 music: Intertribal Song (song) Dakota Nation (artist) Home of the Champions (album)
Break 2 music: Don’t Make Trouble in Your Heart (song) Cheevers Toppah (artist) Renewed Spirit – Harmonized Church Hymns of The Kiowa (album)
HELLO THERE MY FRIEND, WE NEED MORE RESOURCES HERE AT WOUNDED KNEE FOR THE REMAINS DISCOVERED HERE IN 2020