1.
“Notice of
Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ (February 25, 2008). The museum agreed that 100 shell beads legally
excavated in 1958 from a burial at mission San Xavier del Bac near Tucson were
unassociated funerary objects and should be given to the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Salt River
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation and the Tohono O’odham
Nation, all in Arizona.”
(American
Indian Art, Vol. 34(3):88, Summer 2009)
2.
October 1st, 2012:
“Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Stanford
University Archaeology Center, Stanford, CA
"...Sometime prior to 1905, 44 cultural items were removed from an
unknown location in Tulare County, CA. Stanford University's
cofounder,
Mrs. Jane Stanford, donated the cultural items to the Stanford
Museum
before her death in 1905. The sacred objects are 44 stone objects.
Representatives from the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa
Rosa
Rancheria, California, identified the 44 stone objects as sacred
objects during a consultation visit to Stanford University in
August
2011.
The Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California, has provided additional information regarding these
cultural items to establish cultural affiliation to the Yokut
tribes.
Based on the site location and in accordance with the information
received in the consultation process, the sacred objects are
culturally
affiliated with the Yokut communities represented by the
present-day
tribes of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of
California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; and the Tule River Indian
Tribe
of the Tule River Reservation, California.”
3.
June 17th, 2013
“Notice of Intent To
Repatriate Cultural Items: University of
Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR
"...In 1938, seven cultural items were removed from Courthouse Rock,
near Antelope, in Wasco County, OR, during legally authorized
excavations by archeologists from the University of Oregon. The
cultural items were found in direct association with a burial pit
exhibiting signs of cremation. Two burial pits were excavated, but
human remains were only removed from Pit 2. The human remains
and associated funerary objects from Pit 2 are the subject of
a separate Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal
Register. The seven unassociated funerary objects from Pit 1
are two points, four scrapers, and one yellow pigment sample.
Based on archeological
context, the cultural items described above
are determined to be Native American. Based on provenience, the
cultural items are reasonably believed to be affiliated with the
Tenino
people. Historical documents, ethnographic sources, and oral
history
indicate that Tenino people have occupied north-central Oregon
since
pre-contact times. The Tenino people are one of the tribes that
compose
the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.”
It must have
been such a mad house in 1990 when NAGPRA was made law and many collections,
museums, and other institutions would have had to scramble to reevaluate
everything they have and decide if any of it was human remain, sacred objects,
funerary objects, or communal property that could need to be repatriated to the
tribes. It seems much more reasonable now that researchers can decide if NAGPRA
is in order for a certain object right on the spot as opposed to 1990 when
everything collected for hundreds of years had to be revaluated!
