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4/11/2007
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Nurturing The Natives
Author: Christopher Pala Source: Philadelphia City Paper
Title: NURTURING THE NATIVES
When he arrived in Hawaii, William Brown knew more about the social rituals of Hawaii's birds than its people. So when an aide told him that a simmering dispute between native Hawaiian groups over disposition of the museum's most valuable piece had been satisfactorily resolved as far as the museum was concerned he let the matter lie fallow
However, the dispute had more deeply divided the native Hawaiian community (which makes up a quarter of Hawaii's 1.3 million people) than any other. It grew out of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) which was designed as a legal instrument for Native Americans to get back from museums and universities bones and associated funerary objects that they could rebury with dignity, along with cultural icons and sacred objects for use in traditional religions.
America's 550-odd Native American tribes all have federally recognized governments, which NAGPRA designates as the appropriate recipients of these objects. But in Hawaii, the government dissolved with the U.S. forced annexation of 1893. There are scores of native Hawaiian organizations with a wide diapason of goals, and figuring out who should get the bones and objects has proven an exceedingly thorny issue.
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