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What's New?
Grants: New Financial Information
View the National NAGPRA Channel on YouTube
NAGPRA Review Committee Report to Congress 2011
November 28-29, 2012 : 47th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting (Washington, DC, National Museum of the American Indian)
Agenda and Review Committee Materials
May 22-23, 2013 : 49th NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting (Denver, CO, History Colorado Museum)
Requests must be received by the following due dates:
- March 9, 2013 - Requests for finding of fact
- March 9, 2013 - Requests for CUI disposition
- March 22, 2013 - Requests for presentations by Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, museums, and Federal agencies on the progress made, and any barriers encountered, in implementing NAGPRA
- April 22, 2013 - Agenda posted online
What's New in Training
Feb. 19, 2013, 1:30-3pm EST: A Live Demonstration of the National NAGPRA Program Databases
Mar. 7, 2013, 2-4pm EST: Notices: Types, Process, & Content
April 2, 2013, 2-4pm EDT: Determining Aboriginal Lands Under NAGPRA |
Please note: The NAGPRA Review Committee meeting currently scheduled for May 22 and 23 in Denver, Colorado, will instead be telephonic on May 22. A new meeting notice will publish. All existing deadlines for agenda items will remain.
Upcoming Webinar in February
National NAGPRA online databases are designed to provide access to a variety of NAGPRA-related topics. In this webinar, A Live Demonstration of the National NAGPRA Program Databases, you will learn about the databases and how to navigate through them. Click here to register.
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FY13 NAGPRA Grant Guidelines and Application Now Available Online
If your tribe or museum is considering a NAGPRA Grant in the coming year, now is the time to begin planning. Go to Application Guidelines and Forms.
- Oct. 1, 2012 - Jan. 4, 2013 - Draft project proposal submissions for pre-review assistance
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March 6, 2013 - Deadline to submit applications for project proposals
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July 9, 2013 - Target date for grant award announcements
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Oct. 1, 2012 - June 15, 2013 - Period in which to request noncompetitive repatriation grants
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Jan 31, 2013 - webinar, grants training
Questions? Contact NAGPRA_grants@nps.gov
Note: Availability of grants is subject to Congressional appropriation. The process for grant fund dispersals is subject to anticipated Federal Budget Management Systems inauguration in FY 13.
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted on November 16, 1990, to address the rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations to Native American cultural items, including human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. The Act assigned implementation responsibilities to the Secretary of the Interior. Staff support is provided by the National NAGPRA Program, including:
- Publishing notices for museums and Federal agencies in the Federal Register,
- Creating and maintaining databases, including the Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains Inventories (CUI) Database,
- Making grants to assist museums, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations in fulfilling NAGPRA,
- Assessing civil penalties on museums that fail to comply with provisions of the Act,
- Providing staff support to the NAGPRA Review Committee and for the Annual Report to Congress,
- Providing technical assistance to Federal agencies where there are excavations and discoveries of cultural items on Federal and Indian lands,
- Promulgating implementing regulations, and
- Providing technical assistance through training, website information, reports prepared for the Review Committee, supporting law enforcement investigations and direct personal service.
The National Park Service has compliance obligations for parks, separate from the National NAGPRA Program. National NAGPRA is the omnibus program, the constituent groups of which are all Federal agencies, museums that receive Federal funds, tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations and the public.
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