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The Law and American Indian burial mound protection Page 2 of 4 that Have Submitted a NAGPRA inventory, and Museums and Federal Agencies that have Submitted Nagpra Summaries, may be found at the National Park Service's National NAGPRA. Inventories and Summaries. The National Park Service's NAGPRA site has also a section listing Notices of Inventory Completion (published when a museum or Federal agency has made a determination of cultural affiliation for Native American human remains and associated funerary objects in their possession or control), Notices ofIntent to Repatriate (published when a museum or Federal agency receives, reviews, and accepts a claim by a tribe for sacred objects, unassociated funerary objects, or objects of cultural patrimony) and Notices of Disposition (published in newspapers by the Federal agency official responsible for cultural items excavated or removed from Federal lands). Access is at Notices. Contacts for NAGPRA are at National Nag.pra Contact Information. The National NAGPRA Organizational Chart is here as well as contact individuals regarding different aspects ofNAGPRA. More NAGPRA The July 10, 1998 "NAGPRA Policy Statement" of the Five Civilized Tribes may be read at The People's Paths Home Page. The Roots ofNAGPRA is an interview with Steve Russell--Social and Policy Science professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma about the history ofNAGPRA--at About.com. A review of Federal Statutes and Regulations concerning Native American human remains, associated funerary objects and ritual objects may be found at http://forums.1aw.arizona.edu/li brary /Chi orazzi/tj afekIF eds .htm. Page subheadings include a summary ofNAGPRA, Legislative History, Federal Statues and Regulations, Oversight Hearings, Guidance from Agencies Administering NAGPRA, Attempted Amendments to NAGPRA, Other Federal Legislation, General Research and Tools. They note a good layman's summary ofNAGPRA may be found at Archnet at http://archnet.uconn.edll/topicallcrm/usdocs/nagll.@8.htm.As of Oct. 16,2000 Archnet is no longer in operation but the page is still up. Arrowheads. com gives a full text of the act at http://www.arrowheads.com/nagpra.htm . To find all of the relevant statutes and regulations, use FindLaw's Indian Law search engine at http://\li\''\'' .findlaw.comfO 1 topics/21 indian/index.html The San Francisco State University, Dept. of Anthropology NAGPRA Compliance Project. Nagpra-l is an email discussion list for issues related to a US Ferderallaw known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. To subscribe, send email to majordomola1world.std.com with subscribe nagpra-l in the body of your message, leaving the subject line blank. The List Moderator is Katherine Jones, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Email: kjones@fas.harvard.edu or kathy jones@harvard.edu. NAGPRA Troubles Conflict of interest criticisms have been made against the National Park Service's management of its Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Indian Country's 2001 Jan 24th story on this by Brian Stockes may be found at www.indiancouilln..com/articles/headline-200 1-0 1-24-07 .shtml. Go to state laws http://www.ibsgwatch.imagedjinn.com/1earnllaws.htm 6/8/2004