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Grave Injustice: UCSD Repatriation Teach-In
Monday, October 13, 2008 at 5-7 pm For the Kumeyaay and for all Native Americans, the right to repatriate the remains of ancestors was made law in 1990 with the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This act safeguards Indian grave sites from disruption and creates a process by which Indian exhumations can be identified and returned to the tribes. The procedure couples Indian testimony and archaeological evidence to establish a tribe’s “cultural affiliation” to the remains. Cultural affiliation is established, according to the NAGPRA website, “when the preponderance of the evidence — based on geographical, kinship, biological, archaeological, linguistic, folklore, oral tradition, historical evidence, or other information or expert opinion — reasonably leads to such a conclusion.” Once cultural affiliation between a group and a collection of bones or artifacts is set, the tribe has a right to those resources, whenever they were dug up and no matter how old they are. Want to know more? *Grave Injustice: UCSD Repatriation Teach-In Monday, October 13, 2008 at 5-7 pm* Grave Injustice: UCSD Repatriation Teach-In Learn about and discuss issues surrounding the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in a safe space (Multi-Purpose Room, Student Services Center, UCSD) with Dr. Sherry Hutt, Program Manager with the National NAGPRA Program. Moderated by Devon Lomayesva, Executive Director of the California Indian Legal Services and member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel. Also Louie Guassac, Sycuan Consultant, Carole Goldberg, J.D., Professor of Law at UCLA and Faculty Chair of UCLA Law School's Native Nations Law and Policy Center and Dr. Ross Frank, UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies and author of UCSD's NAGPRA Minority Report. A reception will follow. Multi-Purpose Room, Student Services Center, UCSD . |
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