"In the End, Our Message Weighs": Blood Run, NAGPRA, and American Indian Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Penelope Kelsey
Cari M. Carpenter
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 56-74
Description
Discusses how "Blood Run" exposes the limitations of repatriation legislation, most significantly, how NAGPRA's current definition of American Indian identity falls short of sovereign tribal conceptions of identity and tribal responsibility for the repatriation of ancestral remains.