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Abstract
Three decades after the initial five-year deadline for compliance, federal agencies and museums have once more been called to account for their failure to return Ancestors and cultural items to Tribal Nations under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA). In April 2024 more than 70 practitioners collaborated in forums and paper and poster sessions to produce the first ever “Day of NAGPRA” at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans. The overwhelming success of this effort is as clear a barometer as any for the current need in the discipline for more conversation, better resources, increased opportunities, and—above all—the chance at a truly collaborative push for a complete return of all Ancestors and their belongings to their communities. In this article, we set up our thematic issue by introducing readers to the various contributions concerning duty of care, education, and policy implementation inspired and informed by the “Day of NAGPRA.”
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Published in Advances in Archaeological Practice, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2025, pages 357-363.
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for American Archaeology. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
APA Citation
Yann, J., Domeischel, J., Thompson, A. R., & Schreiner, N. M. (2025). Pathways to repatriation for NAGPRA practitioners: Introduction. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 13(3), 357–363. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10107