The Laws
| Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) | National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) | State Unmarked Burial Laws |
Secondary Sources
Books and Reports
| Author | Title | Other Information |
| Adams, Roxana | Implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | American Association of Museums, 2001 |
| Allen, Harry | Protecting Historic Places in New Zealand | Department of Anthropology, Univ. Of Auckland, 1998 |
Benedict, Jeff |
No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons |
Harper Collins Publishers, 2003 ISBN: 0-06-019923-7 |
| Brown, Rebecca | Repatriation and Heritage Ownership: Implications for the Land Manager | Unpublished thesis, School of Natural and Rural Systems Management, Univ. of Queensland, Gatton College, 2002 |
| Chatters, James C. | Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans | Simon & Schuster, 2001 |
| Deacon, H.J. and Jeanette Deacon | Human Beginnings in South Africa: Uncovering the Secrets of the Stone Age | Altamira Press, 1999 |
| Deloria, Jr., Vine | Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto | Avon Books, 1969 |
Dewar, Elaine |
Bones: Discovering the First Americans |
Random House Canada, 2000 ISBN:0-679-31065-7 |
| Downey, Roger | Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race and the Story of Kennewick Man | Copernicus, 1999 |
| Faigman, David L. | Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law | W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999 |
| Josephy, Jr., Alvin M. | Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom | American Heritage Press, 1971 |
| Mihesuah, Devon A. | Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? | Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000 |
| Museums Australia | Previous Possessions, New Obligations: Policies for Museums in Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples | Museums Australia National Office, 2000 |
| Thomas, David Hurst | Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity | Basic Books, 2000 |
Journal Articles
| Author | Title | Journal | Pages | Other Information |
| Abatelli, Carol | Ethics of Reburial: Two Cases from Southern New England | Man in the Northeast | 87-100 | Vol.45 (1993) |
| Ackerman, Douglas W. | Kennewick Man: The Meaning of "Cultural Affiliation" and "Major Scientific Benefit" in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | Tulsa Law Journal | 359- | Vol.33 (1997) |
| Afrasiabi, Peter R. | Property Rights in Ancient Human Skeletal Remains | Southern California Law Review | 805- | Vol.70 (1997) |
| Allen, Lindy | Cultural Heritage Management in the 1990s | COMA: Bulletin of the Conference of Museum Anthropologists | 24-29 | Vol.29 (1996) |
| Amato, Christopher A. | Digging Sacred Ground: Burial Site Disturbances and the Loss of New York's Native American Heritage | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law | 1-44 | Vol.27 (2002) |
| Anderson, Christopher | Repatriation of Cultural Property: A Social Process | Museum | 54-55 | Vol.42(1) (1990) |
| Anderson, Duane | Reburial: Is It Reasonable? | Archaeology | 48- | Vol.38 (1985) |
| Asam, Trevor K. | Nana I Ke Kumu: Looking to the Source for Protections of Native Hawaiian Culture | Hawaii Bar Journal | 96-97 | Vol. 10 (2006) |
| Ayau, Edward Halealoha | Native Burials: Human Rights and Sacred Bones | Cultural Survival Quarterly | 34-37 | Vol.24 (2000) |
| Bahn, Paul G. | Do Not Disturb? Archaeology and the Rights of the Dead | Oxford Journal of Archaeology | 127-139 | Vol.3 (1984) |
| Bahn, Paul G. | Burying the Hatchet | Nature | 123-124 | Vol.342(6246) (1989) |
| Baikie, Gary | What Do the Labrador Inuit Want? | Inuit Art Quarterly | 8- | Vol.8 (1993) |
| Beard, Tanya Groberg | Native American Remains and Historic Artifacts: New Protections | Utah Law Review | 1144-1150 | Vol.1999 (1999) |
| Bell, Catherine | Aboriginal Claims to Cultural Property in Canada: A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Repatriation Debate | American Indian Law Review | 457- | Vol.17 (1992) |
| Bernstein, Bruce | Repatriation and Collaboration: The Museum of New Mexico | Museum Anthropology | 19-21 | Vol.15 (1991) |
| Bieder, Robert E. | The Return of the Ancestors | Zeitschrift für Ethnologie | 229-240 | Vol.115 (1990) |
| Bieder, Robert E. | The Collecting of Bones for Anthropological Narratives | American Indian Culture and Research Journal | 21-25 | Vol.16(2) (1992) |
| Bluemel, Erik B. | Accommodating Native American Cultural Activities on Federal Public Lands | Idaho Law Review | 475-563 | Vol. 41 (2005) |
| Bolz, Peter | Repatriation of Native American Cultural Objects - Confrontation or Cooperation? | Zeitschrift für Ethnologie | 69-77 | Vol.118 (1994) |
| Bowdler, Sandra | Unquiet Slumbers: The Return of the Kow Swamp Burials | Antiquity | 103- | Vol.66 (1992) |
| Bray, Tamara L. | Repatriation, Power Relations and the Politics of the Past | Antiquity | 440-444 | Vol.70 (1996) |
| Bromilow, Gavan | Finders Keepers? | Museums Journal | 31-34 | Vol.93 (1993) |
| Buikstra, Jane E. | A Specialist in Ancient Cemetery Studies Looks at the Reburial Issue | Early Man | 26-27 | Vol.3 (1981) |
| Buikstra, Jane E. | Reburial: How We All Lose | Society for California Archaeology Newsletter | 1- | Vol.17 (1983) |
| Cantwell, A.M. | "Who Knows the Power of His Bones": Reburial Redux | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 79-119 | Vol.925 (2000) |
| Carpenter, Edmund | Repatriation Policy and the Heye Collection | Museum Anthropology | 15-18 | Vol.15 (1991) |
| Carpenter, Edmund | Dead Truth, Live Myth | European Review of Native American Studies | 27-29 | Vol.11(2) (1997) |
| Clabaugh, Patricia A. | Perspectives on Curation and Tribal Collaboration in Texas | Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | 67-75 | Vol.4 (1998) |
| Clark, Mary L. | Keep Your Hands Off My (Dead) Body: A Critique of the Ways in Which the State Disrupts the Personhood Interests of the Deceased and His or Her Kin in Disposing of the Dead and Assigning Identity in Death | Rutgers Law Review | 45-120 | Vol. 58 (2005) |
| Clark, Mary L. | Treading on Hallowed Ground: Implications for Property Law and Critical Theory of Land Associated with Human Death and Burial | Kentucky Law Journal | 487-534 | Vol. 94 (2005-2006) |
| Conaty, Gerald T. and Robert R. Janes | Issues of Repatriation: A Canadian View | European Review of Native American Studies | 31-37 | Vol.11(2) (1997) |
| Crowther, Wendy | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: How Kennewick Man Uncovered the Problems in NAGPRA | Journal of Land, Resources and Environmental Law | 269- | Vol.20 (2000) |
| Custred, Glen | Oral Traditions and Rules of Evidence | Mammoth Trumpet | Vol.16 (2001) | |
| Custred, Glen | The Case of Kennewick Man: Linguistic Evidence and Cultural Affiliation | Mammoth Trumpet | Vol.17 (2002) | |
| Custred, Glen | The Kennewick Man Case | Science Insights | 6-13 | Vol.7 (2002) |
| Davidson, Patricia | Human Subjects as Museum Objects: A Project to Make Life-Casts of ‘Bushmen’ and ‘Hottentots’ | Annals of the South African Museum | 165- | Vol.102(1993) |
| Deacon, Janette | Editorial | South African Archaeology Bulletin | 73- | Vol.155 (1992) |
| Deloria, Jr., Vine | A Simple Question of Humanity: The Moral Dimensions of the Reburial Issue | NARF Legal Review | 1-12 | Vol.14 (1989) |
| Deloria, Jr., Vine | Indians, Archaeologists, and the Future | American Antiquity | 595- | Vol.57 (1992) |
| Deloria, Jr., Vine | Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians | American Indian Culture and Research Journal | 9-20 | Vol.16(2) (1992) |
| Dobkins, Rebecca | Representing Repatriation: Exhibiting the Omaha Collection at the Hearst Museum | Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers | 80-91 | Vol.75/76 (1992) |
| Dongoske, Kurt E. | The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological Analysis -- A Hopi Perspective | American Indian Quarterly | 287-296 | Vol.20(2) (1996) |
| Dussias, Allison M. | Kennewick Man, Kinship, and the "Dying Race": The Ninth Circuit's Assimilationist Assault on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | Nebraska Law Review | 55-161 | Vol. 84 (2005) |
| Eden, Katreina | Where Do the Dead Go? A Discussion of the Need to Enact More Specific Legislation in North America to Better Serve Native Americans' Rights to Indigenous Skeletal Remains | Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas | 119-135 | Vol. 12 (2005) |
| Elson, J. | Returning Bones of Contention: A Bitter Debate Over Spiritual Values and Scholarly Needs | Time | 61- | Vol.134 (1989) |
| Evans, William L. | Who Owns the Contents of Ohio's Ancient Graves? | Capital University Law Review | 711-747 | Vol.22 (1993) |
| Farr, Moira | Back to the Grave | University Affairs | 10- | May (2002) |
| Feest, Christian F. | "Repatriation": A European View on the Question of Restitution of Native American Artifacts | European Review of Native American Studies | 33-42 | Vol.9(2) (1995) |
| Ferguson, T.J. | Native Americans and the Practice of Archaeology | Annual Review of Anthropology | 63-79 | Vol.25 (1996) |
| Ferguson, T.J., Roger Anyon, and Edmund J. Ladd | Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems | American Indian Quarterly | 251-273 | Vol.20(2) (1996) |
| Fienup-Riordan, Ann | Collaboration on Display: A Yup'ik Eskimo Exhibit at Three National Museums | American Anthropologist | 339-358 | Vol.101 (1999) |
| Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. | Disciplinary Renewal Out of National Disgrace: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Compliance in the Academy | Radical History Review | 25- | Vol.68 (1997) |
| Flood, Maura A. | "Kennewick Man" or "Ancient One"? -- A Matter of Interpretation | Montana Law Review | 39-90 | Vol.63 (2002) |
| Gathercole, Peter | The Repatriation of Ethnographic Objects | RAIN: Royal Anthropological Institute News | 2- | Vol.46 (1981) |
| Goldstein, Lynne and Keith Kintigh | Ethics and the Reburial Controversy | American Antiquity | 585-591 | Vol.55(3) (1990) |
| Graham, Norman | Aboriginal Skeltal Repatriation at the Museum of Victoria and My Role | COMA: Bulletin of the Conference of Museum Anthropologists | 45-48 | Vol.26 (1996) |
| Grimes, Ronald L. | Desecration of the Dead: An Inter-religious Controversy | American Indian Quarterly | 305-318 | Vol.10 (1986) |
| Grindle, Donald A. | The Reburial of American Indian Remains and Funerary Objects | Northeast Indian Quarterly | 35- | Summer (1991) |
| Grose, Teresa O. | Reading the Bones: Information Content, Value, and Ownership Issues Raised by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | Journal of the American Society for Information Science | 624-631 | Vol.47(8) (1996) |
| Harrington, Spencer P.M. | Bones and Bureaucrats: New York's Great Cemetery Imbroglio | Archaeology | 28-38 | Vol.46(2) (1993) |
| Harris, Helen L. and Ruth H. Soucy | Bridging the Gap: A Perspective From Two Generations | Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | 25-34 | Vol.4 (1999) |
| Hibbert, Michelle | Galileos or Grave Robbers? Science, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the First Amendment | American Indian Law Review | 425-458 | Vol.23 (1998/1999) |
| Hinton, Leanne | Ishi's Brain | News from Native California | 4-9 | Vol.13(1) (1999) |
| Hubert, Jane | After the Vermillion Accord: Developments in the Reburial Issue | World Archaeological Bulletin | 113-118 | Vol.5 (1991) |
| Hugo, David | The Stehlow Collection - Where to Now? | COMA: Bulletin of the Conference of Museum Anthropologists | 49-53 | Vol.28 (1996) |
| Hurtado, Daniel J. | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Does It Subject Museums to an Unconstitutional "Taking"? | Hofstra Property Law Journal | 1-83 | Vol.6 (1993) |
| Hutt, Sherry | If Geronimo Was Jewish: Equal Protection and the Cultural Property Rights of Native Americans | Northern Illinois University Law Review | 527-562 | Vol. 24 (2004) |
| Inouye, Senator Daniel K. | Repatriation: Forging New Relationships | Arizona State Law Journal | 1- | Vol.24 (1992) |
| Jacknis, Ira | Repatriation as a Social Drama: The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, 1922-1980 | American Indian Quarterly | 274-286 | Vol.20 (1996) |
| Johansen, Bruce E. | Great White Hope? Kennewick Man, the Facts, the Fantasies and the Stakes | Native Americas | 36- | Vol.16 (1999) |
| Jones, D. Gareth and Robyn J. Harris | Archaeological Human Remains: Scientific, Cultural, and Ethical Considerations | Current Anthropology | 253- | Vol.39 (1998) |
| Jones, Jane Peirson | Bones of Contention | Museums Journal | 24-25 | Vol.93(3) (1993) |
| Kelly, Michael J. | A Skeleton in the Closet: The Discovery of "Kennewick Man" Crystalizes the Debate Over Federal Law Governing Disposal of Ancient Human Remains | University of Hawaii Law Review | 41-68 | Vol.21 (1999) |
| Klesert, Anthony L. | A View From Navajoland on the Reconciliation of Anthropologists and Native Americans | Human Organization | 17-22 | Vol.51(1) (1992) |
| Klesert, Anthony L. and Michael J. Andrews | The Treatment of Human Remains on Navajo Lands | American Antiquity | 310-320 | Vol.53(2) (1988) |
| Klesert, Anthony L. and Shirley Powell | A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy | American Antiquity | 348-354 | Vol.58(2) (1993) |
| Knüsel, Christopher J. and Charlotte A. Roberts | 'Shared Principles': The Scientists' Reply | Antiquity | 431-433 | Vol.66(251) (1992) |
| Kosslak, Renee M. | The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: The Death Knell for Scientific Study? | American Indian Law Review | 129-151 | Vol.24 (2000) |
| Kucera, Vic, Dale R. Croes, Mathew Dick, Jr., and David Rice | 'Shared Principles': A Cooperation Agreement Between a Native American Group and Archaeologists | Antiquity | 917-920 | Vol.65(249) (1991) |
| Lannan, Robert W. | Anthropology and Restless Spirits: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the Unsolved Issues of Prehistoric Human Remains | Harvard Environmental Law Review | 369-439 | Vol.22 (1998) |
| Lepper, Bradley T. | Kennewick Man Ruling Defended in U.S. Court fo Appeals | Mammoth Trumpet | 3, 10-11, 18-20 | Vol.18(4) (2003) |
| Lepper, Bradley T. | Court Decision Leaves Fate of Spirit Cave Man Undecided | Mammoth Trumpet | 13, 15-17 | Vol. 22(1) (2007) |
| Lomawaima, Hartman, C. Timothy McKeown, Suzan Shown Harjo, Barbara Isaac, W. Richard West | NAGPRA at 10: Examining a Decade of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | Museum News | 42-49, 67-69, 71-75 | Vol.79(5) (2000) |
| Lombardi, Guido P. | Anasazi Artificial Mummification: Photographic Evidence in the NAGPRA Era | Human Mosaic | 25-37 | Vol.32(1&2) (1998) |
| Lopez. Lupe | Reburial at Bolsa Chica | News from Native California | 20-21 | Vol.8(2) (1994) |
| Loring, Stephen | Repatriation as a Guiding Principle for the Arctic Studies Center | AnthroNotes | Vol.17 (1995) | |
| Lovis, William A. | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (P.L. 101-601) | Michigan Archaeologist | 179-181 | Vol.37 (1991) |
| Mann, Barbara A. | In Defense of the Ancestors: Ohio Falls Silent | Native Americas | 50- | Vol.17 (2000) |
| Martin, Kallen M. | The Beginning of Respect: The U.S. Repatriation Law | Native Americas | 24-29 | Vol.14 (1997) |
| Matos, Ramiro and Betty L. White | To Receive the Ancestors: A Traditional Andean Community Reburies Long-Lost Relatives | Native Americas | 10-23 | Vol.14(3) (1997) |
| McAleese, Kevin | The Reinterment of the Thule Inuit Burials and Associated Artifacts – IdCr-14 Rose Island, Saglek Bay, Labrador | Études Inuit/Inuit Studies | 41- | Vol.22 (1998) |
| McCoy, Ron | Bones of Contention: Kennewick Man | American Indian Art | 115- | Vol.23 (1998) |
| McKeown, C. Timothy | In the Smaller Scope of Conscience: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Twelve Years After | UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy | 153- | Vol.21 (2002-2003) |
| McLaughlin, Robert H. | The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Unresolved Issues Between Material Culture and Legal Definitions | University of Chicago Law School Roundtable | 767-790 | Vol.3 (1996) |
| McNutt, Charles H. | A Critical Issue in Tennessee Archaeology | Tennessee Anthropological Association Newsletter | 1-4 | Vol.17(1) (1992) |
| Meehan, Betty | Aboriginal Skeletal Remains | Australian Archaeology | 122-147 | Vol.19 (1984) |
| Meighan, Clement W. | Some Scholars’ Views on Reburial | American Antiquity | 704- | Vol.57 (1992) |
| Meighan, Clement W. | Burying American Archaeology | Archaeology | 64- | Vol.47 (1994) |
| Mercado-Allinger, Patricia A. | Seeking Common Ground: Introductory Remarks Regarding Efforts to Pass an Unmarked Graves Protection Bill in Texas | Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | 35-39 | Vol.4 (1998) |
| Merrill, William L., Edmund J. Ladd, and T.J. Ferguson | The Return of the Ahayu:da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution | Current Anthropology | 523-567 | Vol.34(5) (1993) |
| Mihesuah, Devon A. | American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences | American Indian Quarterly | 229-237 | Vol.20 (1996) |
| Miller, James J. | Florida's Unmarked Burial Bill | The Florida Anthropologist | 326-330 | Vol.39(3) (1986) |
| Monroe, Dan L. | Repatriation: A New Dawn | Museums Journal | 29-31 | Vol.93(3) (1993) |
| Moore, Michael C. | A Review of the Tennessee State Cemetery Law and Its Effect Upon Archaeological Data Recovery and Site Preservation | Tennessee Anthropologist | 64-76 | Vol.14 (1989) |
| Moore, Steve | Federal Indian Burial Policy: Historical Anachronism or Contemporary Reality? | NARF Legal Review | 1-7 | Vol.12 (1987) |
| Morell, Virginia | Who Owns the Past? | Science | 1424- | Vol.268 (1995) |
| Morris, Alan G. | The Reflection of the Collector: San and Khoi Skeletons in Museum Collections | South African Archaeology Bulletin | 12- | Vol.42 (1987) |
| Mulvaney, D.J. | Past Regained, Future Lost: The Kow Swamp Pleistocene Burials | Antiquity | 12- | Vol.65 (1991) |
| Murphy, Mary Lynn | Assessing NAGPRA: An Analysis of Its Success from a Historical Perspective | Seton Hall Legislative Journal | 499-523 | Vol.25 (2001) |
| Murray, Virginia H. | A "Right" of the Dead and a Charge on the Quick: Criminal Laws Relating to Cemeteries, Burial Grounds and Human Remains | Journal of the Missouri Bar | 115-120 | Vol.56 (2000) |
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| National Trust for Historic Preservation | Minnesota Court Dismisses Inverse Condemnation Challenge to State Human Remains Statute | Preservation Law Reporter | 1158-1160 | Vol.9(12) (1990) |
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| Pardoe, Colin | Arches of Radii, corridors of power: Reflections on current archaeological practice. in Power, Knowledge and Aborigines | Journal of Australian Studies (a special edition edited by B. Attwood and J. Arnold) | 132-141 | (1992) |
| Pardoe, Colin | Competing paradigms and ancient human remains: the state of the discipline | Archaeology in Oceania | 79-85 | Vol.26 (1991) |
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| Tobias, Phillip V. | On the Scientific, Medical, Dental, and Educational Value of Collections of Human Skeletons | International Journal of Anthropolology | 277- | Vol.6 (1991) |
| Trafzer, Clifford E. | Serra's Legacy: The Desecration of American Indian Burials at Mission San Diego | American Indian Culture and Research Journal | 57-75 | Vol.16(2) (1992) |
| Tsosie, Rebecca | Indigenous Peoples' Claims to Cultural Proprety: A Legal Perspective | Museum Anthropology | 5-11 | Vol.21 (1997) |
| Tsosie, Rebecca | Privileging Claims to the Past: Ancient Human Remains and Contemporary Cultural Values | Arizona State Law Journal | 583-677 | Vol.31 (1999) |
| Tsosie, Rebecca | The New Challenge of Native Identity: An Essay on "Indigeneity" and "Whiteness" | Washington University Journal of Law and Policy | 55-98 | Vol. 18 (2005) |
| Tsosie, Rebecca | Challenges to Sacred Site Protection | Denver University Law Review | 963-979 | Vol. 83 (2006) |
| Turnbull, Paul | Ramsay’s Regime: The Australian Museum and the Procurement of Aboriginal Bodies, c. 1874-1900 | Aboriginal History | 108- | Vol.15 (1991) |
| Turner, II, Christy G. | What is Lost With Skeletal Reburial? I. Adaptation | Quarterly Review of Archaeology | 1- | Vol.7 (1986) |
| Tymchuk, Michael | Skeletal Remains: In Defense of Sensitivity and Compromise | Council for Museum Anthropology Newsletter | 2-8 | Vol.8 (1984) |
| Ubelaker, Douglas H. and Lauryn G. Grant | Human Skeletal Remains: Preservation or Reburial? | Yearbook of Physical Anthropology | 249-287 | Vol.32 (1989) |
| Vizenor, Gerald | Bone Courts: The Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones | American Indian Quarterly | 319- | Vol.10 (1986) |
| Webb, S. | Reburying Australian Skeletons | Antiquity | 292- | Vol.61(1987) |
| Weiss, Elizabeth | Research and NAGPRA | SAA Archaeological Record | 29-31 | Vol. 6(3) (2006) |
| Welsh, P.H. | Repatriation and Cultural Preservation: Potent Objects, Potent Pasts | University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform | 837- | Vol.25 (1992) |
| West, Jr., W. Richard | The National Museum of the American Indian Repatriation Policy: Reply to William C. Sturtevant | Museum Anthropology | 13-14 | Vol.15 (1991) |
| World Council of Indigenous Peoples | The Sacred and the Profane: The Reburial Issue as an Issue | Death Studies | 503-517 | Vol.14 (1990) |
| Wright, Lauryne | Focusing on American Indians in Cultural Resource Preservation Laws | Advocate (Idaho) | 20-24 | August (2004) |
| Yasaitis, Kelly E. | NAGPRA: A Look Back Through the Litigation | Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law | 259-285 | Vol. 25 (2005) |
| Zamora, Cristina Bubba | Collectors Versus Native Peoples: The Repatriation of the Sacred Weavings of Coroma, Bolivia | Museum Anthropology | 39-44 | Vol.20 (1996) |
| Zimmerman, Larry J. | 'Tell Them About the Suicide': A Review of Recent Materials on the Reburial of Prehistoric Native American Skeletons | American Indian Quarterly | 333-343 | Vol.10 (1986) |
| Zimmerman, Larry J. | Webb on Reburial: A North American Perspective | Antiquity | 462- | Vol.61 (1987) |
| Zimmerman, Larry J. | Archaeology, Reburial, and the Tactics of a Discipline's Self-Delusion | American Indian Culture and Research Journal | 37-56 | Vol.16 (1992) |
| Zimmerman, Larry J. | Sharing Control of the Past | Archaeology | 65, 67-68 | Vol.47 (1994) |
| Zimmerman, Larry J. and John B. Gregg | A History of the Reburial Issue in South Dakota | South Dakota Archaeol | 89- | Vol.13 (1989) |
Chapters In Books
| Author | Title | Book Title | Pages | Other Information |
| Deloria, Jr., Vine | Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians | Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? | 2000 | |
| Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, Pualani Kanaká Ole Kanehele, and Jennifer H. Antes | Repatriation of Indigenous Hawaiian Cultural Property by the City of Providence: A Case Study in Politics and Applied Law | Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology, 2d ed. | 141-158 | 2003 |
| Landau, Patricia M. and D. Gentry Steele | Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains | Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? | 2000 | |
| McManamon, Francis P. | The Reality of Repatriation: Reaching Out to Native Americans | Implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | 2001 | |
| Morenon, E. Pierre | Nagged by NAGPRA: Is There and Archaeological Ethic? | Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology, 2d ed. | 107-140 | 2003 |
| Pardoe, Colin | Australian Biological Anthropology for archaeologists | Archaeology from Australia | 131-150 | 2004 (edited by Tim Murray) |
| Powell, Shirley, Christina Elnora Garza, and Aubrey Hendricks | Ethics and Ownership of the Past: The Reburial and Repatriation Controversy | Archaeological Method And Theory, Vol.5 | 1993 | |
| Riding In, James | Repatriation: A Pawnee’s Perspective | Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? | 2000 |
Conference Presentations
| Author | Title | Conference | Location | Date |
| Hammil, Jan and Larry J. Zimmerman | Perspectives from Lakota Spiritual Men and Elders | Forty-first Plains Conference | Rapid City, SD | 1983 |
| Huxley, Angie Kay | Human Remains Sold to the Highest Bidder! A Snapshot of the Buying and Selling of Human Skeletal Remains on eBay, An Internet Auction Site | American Academy of Forensic Sciences | Atlanta, GA | 2002 |
| Lovis, William A., Keith W. Kintigh, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Lynne G. Goldstein | Creating and Implementing National Repatriation Legislation and Policy | World Archaeological Congress 4 | University of Cape Town, South Africa | 1999 |
| Taylor, Russell | Archaeology and Indigenous Australia | World Archaeological Congress 4 | University of Cape Town, South Africa | 1999 |
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