INTERNATIONAL REPATRIATION WEBINAR
Hosted by the NPS National NAGPRA Training
OCTOBER 28, 2010
2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (EDT)
In recent years, Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations have been actively pursuing the repatriation of ancestors and cultural items situated in foreign repositories. In some cases, NAGPRA has been used to effect their return, but most often, consultation and negotiation were conducted outside the scope of NAGPRA. This webinar has three parts. In the first segment, participants will develop an understanding of the extent to which NAGPRA applies to human remains and cultural items in the physical custody of a foreign repository. Next, they will hear first-hand from Indian tribe and Native Hawaiian organization practitioners about their repatriation work with foreign institutions. These presenters will provide insights into best practices in international repatriation learned during the course of their work. Topics to be covered during this segment will include: locating human remains and cultural items in foreign repositories; cultivating working relationships with foreign institutions; and negotiating the terms and logistics of repatriation across international borders. The last segment will be devoted to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration and its relevance for international repatriation will be discussed, and participants will learn about the current review by the United States of its position on the Declaration, and the role that they can play in that review.
Protecting Indigenous Cultural Property in the Biotech Age
Online Course through Tribal Communities Program at UCLA
Instructor: Dr. Debra Harry
This course will address ways in which Indigenous Peoples can protect their cultural property, Indigenous knowledge, or human and non-human genetic material. A particular focus will be on exercise of tribal sovereignty over research. The course provides an overview of the problems posed by biocolonialism.
International Repatriation Note: This course is particularly relevant because it discusses the human genome project, which, along with other types of scientific studies, has been posed by international entities as a reason to preclude international repatriation or delay repatriations in order to perform these invasive studies before the human remains or human tissues are repatriated. Also, this course discusses consent–both individual and community consent of indigenous peoples within the context of intellectual property issues.
Course link: https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/search.aspx?c=V7880
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!
Museums and Restitution Conference
England, University of Manchester
July 8-9, 2010
Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject.
The conference will bring together museum professionals and academics from a wide range of fields (including museology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural policy) to share ideas on contemporary approaches to restitution from the viewpoint of museums.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/museumsandrestitution/
Free Tribal Collections Workshop
May 28, 2010
Los Angeles, California area
Sponsored by UCLA/Getty Museum
