The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has
come a long way in the last three decades, but museums still have a lot
of work to do, and repatriation doesn’t begin and end with the mandates
laid out in the regulations. If this work is to be effective and adhere
to the spirit of the law, museum practitioners will need to go above and
beyond basic compliance by engaging in relationship building,
restitution, and authentic storytelling.
This four-week course uses case studies, weekly readings, guest
speakers, and discussion to delve into the possibilities, complications,
and practice of repatriation beyond NAGPRA.
Join Instructor Amy L. Covell-Murthy for this 4 week online professional
development course. Amy L. Covell-Murthy is the Archaeology Collection
Manager and Head of the Section of Anthropology at the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has over 15 years of
experience as a museum professional and over a decade of experience with
repatriation and NAGPRA consultation. Amy’s research focuses on the care
of human remains in collecting institutions, especially the formation of
pertinent policy and procedure. With this work, she hopes to ensure that
people have agency over their own bodies and believes that prioritizing
relationships over objects is the only way to dismantle oppressive and
colonial frameworks inherent in museum work.
For more information visit our website:
https://www.museumstudy.com/repatriation-beyond-NAGPRA--
Brad Bredehoft (he/him/his)
CEO
Museum Study, LLC
www.MuseumStudy.com