Museum offers Native graves repatriation workshop
August 27, 2015
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is coordinating a community workshop
and discussion about the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act on Thursday, Sept. 3, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors
Center in downtown Fairbanks.
This informal presentation features several panelists from the museum as well as NAGPRA
expert Claudia Nissley. Josh Reuther, the museum’s curator of archaeology, will facilitate.
There will be a chance to ask questions about the law and how the process works.
For more information, please call the museum’s archaeology department at 907-474-6943.
MEDIA CONTACT: Theresa Bakker, museum information officer, at 907-474-6941 or via e-mail at tabakker@alaska.edu; Scott Shirar, archaeology collection manager, at 907-474-6943 or sjshirar@alaska.edu.
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