In February of 2010, an effort began to connect American Indian tribes in the United States to museum professionals internationally. This effort is meant to promote greater understanding and education to the general public about American Indian people and start discussions about repatriation and the repatriation process.
This work began through a project initiated at the Southwest Indian Law Clinic at the University of New Mexico School of Law and now continues at the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA).
Honor Keeler is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. and Indian Law Certificate from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Honor has worked for a number of years on international repatriation issues and has most recently looked into creating a technical assistance program for U.S. tribes to provide international repatriation grants, collections research, and assistance in overseas negotiations. She moved this project and research to the Southwest Indian Law Clinic (SILC) at the University of New Mexico School of Law from 2009-2010 while in attendance. All research now is now continued at the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA).
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I am very much interested in International Repatriation efforts for the southeastern region of the forced removed tribes of Oklahoma. I used to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the last 13 years and have moved home at Bristow, Oklahoma recently. I studied the regional archaeology and chased down collections orginating from major sites there. I have some leads to some european countries such as the UK and Spain with possible collections.
Both this blog and steady success in reclaiming control over communal and national heritage have been a long time coming. Both promise to make the world safer.