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Further Reading

Penn Museum NAGPRA Resources

Finding their Way Home: Twenty-five Years of NAGPRA at the Penn Museum
by Lucy Fowler Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, Janet M. Monge
Expedition Expedition Magazine, Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2016

Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment—NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
by Robert W. Preucel, Lucy F. Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, and Janet Monge
Expedition Magazine, Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2003.

The Centennial Potlatch
by Robert W. Preucel and Lucy F. Williams
Expedition Magazine, Volume 47, Number 2, Summer 2005.

The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection—Historical Significance and New Research
by Emily S. Renschler and Janet Monge
Expedition Magazine, Volume 50, Number 3, Winter 2008.

Other Resources

Bray, Tamara, ed.
2001 The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans and Repatriation. New York: Garland Publishing.

Bray, Tamara and Thomas W. Killion, eds.
1994 Reckoning with the Dead: The Larsen Bay Repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Fforde, Cressida, Jane Hubert, and Paul Turnbull, eds.
2004 The Dead and their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice . London: Routledge, London.

Fine-Dare, Kathleen
2002 Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

McKeown, C. Timothy
2013 In the Smaller Scope of Conscience: The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986-1990. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Mihesuah, Devon A., ed.
2000 Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Thomas, David H.
2001 Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. New York: Basic Books.

Tweedie, Ann M.
2002 Drawing Back Culture: The Makah Struggle for Repatriation. Seattle: University of Washington Press.


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