How has the Burke Museum complied with NAGPRA?
Federal agencies and museums were required to provide summaries of their holdings of Native American collections to the appropriate culturally affiliated Tribes in 1993. In 1995, they were required to identify the items in their collections that could be considered Native American human remains and funerary objects and submit a detailed item-by-item inventory for these human remains and funerary objects. The Burke completed both of these steps by the respective federal deadlines. In order to stay in communication with tribes, and as a courtesy to provide tribes information about incoming collections, the Burke submitted updated summaries to tribes in 1999, 2001, and 2005. The Burke will be submitting the next summary for accessions acquired between 2005 and 2007 in October, 2007. The Burke then invited relevant tribes to the Burke to consult about NAGPRA cultural items. Written claims for select items were then submitted by tribes to the museum. Once the museum and the tribe have agree
