| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. By Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxii, 250 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8032-2018-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8032-6908-0.)

In 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a watershed piece of legislation that set strict barriers to the ongoing traffic in Indian human remains and cultural objects, required federally funded museums to inventory all their holdings of Indian remains and artifacts precedent to repatriating them to appropriate tribal governments, and set regulations for the treatment of any remains and artifacts that might be found on federal lands in the future. Most Americans, if they are familiar with this law, will have heard of it in connection with the discovery in 1996 of some very ancient human remains near Kennewick, Washington. As of June 2003, Kennewick Man remains suspended in a kind of legal limbo, neither buried nor studied. It is a powerful metaphor for the unfinished quality of the history between Indians and Europeans, as Kathleen S. Fine-Dare suggests:

the treatment of American Indian objects and human remains in this country is a metaphor (an elaborate symbol) and a metonym (an extension) of the treatment of Native American persons and souls in the United States of America since its inception. NAGPRA thus provides a window into the psyche of the nation. (p. 182)

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