![]() ![]() The controversies surrounding NAGPRA, and the complex negotiations it continues to generate, are the subject of Colwell’s book. Furthermore, the act mandates that materials be returned to tribes that can prove cultural affiliation with such objects. The 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) requires United States museums that receive any form of federal funding to publish inventories of the Native American objects and human remains in their collections. In 2007, Chip Colwell was hired as senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to do a job he describes as “a paradox”: to protect and interpret twenty thousand Native American objects the museum had collected for the public trust, and at the same time to negotiate with hundreds of Native American nations over the return of objects and human remains that tribes maintained should never have been entrusted to the public in the first place. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017 336 pp. ![]()
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