Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?

346 Pages·2000·6.71 MB·English

by  Devon Abbott Mihesuah

Repatriation Reader
Who Owns American Indian Remains?
Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah
University of Nebraska Press
Lincoln and London
Acknowledgments for the use of previously
published material appear on page 325, which
constitutes an extension of the copyright page.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Repatriation reader : who owns American Indian
remains? / edited by Devon A. Mihesuah.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-8032-8264-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Indians of North America—Material culture—Law
and legislation. 2. Indians of North America—
Antiquities—Law and legislation. 3. Human remains
(Archaeology)—Law and legislation—United States.
4. Cultural property—Repatriation—United States—
Philosophy. 5. Cultural property—Government
policy—United States. 6. Anthropological
ethics—United States. 7. United States. Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
I. Mihesuah, Devon A. (Devon Abbott), 1957–
e98.m34 r46 2000
973.04%97—dc21
00–036380
N
To Don Worcester,
Professor Emeritus of History,
Texas Christian University

Contents
Introduction
Devon A. Mihesuah, 1
Part 1: History
1. The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century
American Anthropology
Robert E. Bieder, 19
2. Digging for Identity: Reflections on the Cultural Background of
Collecting
Curtis M. Hinsley Jr., 37
Part 2: The Current Debate
3. An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America’s Past
Robert J. Mallouf, 59
4. Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains
Patricia M. Landau and D. Gentry Steele, 74
5. American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation:
Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences
Devon A. Mihesuah, 95
6. Repatriation: A Pawnee’s Perspective
James Riding In, 106
Part 3: Legal and Ethical Issues
7. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act:
Background and Legislative History
Jack F. Trope and Walter R. Echo-Hawk, 123
8. Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American
Indians
Vine Deloria Jr., 169
9. Ethics and the Reburial Controversy
Lynne Goldstein and Keith Kintigh, 180
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10. Some Scholars’ Views on Reburial
Clement W. Meighan, 190
11. A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy
Anthony L. Klesert and Shirley Powell, 200
12. (Re)Constructing Bodies: Semiotic Sovereignty and the Debate over
Kennewick Man
Suzanne J. Crawford, 211
Part 4: Studies in Resolution
13. Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex
Problems
T. J. Ferguson, Roger Anyon, and Edmund J. Ladd, 239
14. Repatriation as Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British
Columbia, 1922–1980
Ira Jacknis, 266
15. NAGPRA: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological
Analysis—A Hopi Perspective
Kurt E. Dongoske, 282
16. A New and Different Archaeology? With a Postscript on the Impact
of the Kennewick Dispute
Larry J. Zimmerman, 294
Appendix: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act, 307
Contributors, 321
Source Acknowledgments, 325
Index, 327
Repatriation Reader