Repatriation Projects

Like all American museums that receive federal grants, the Alutiiq Museum must notify Native communities of the human remains and repatriateable objects in its care.  Working with the National Park Service NAGPRA Program, we published our inventories of these materials in the federal register in 2007.  Alutiiq groups wishing to claim any of these materials may contact the Alutiiq Museum for assistance.  A sample claim letter appears below.

• Sample Claim Letter

Chiniak Bay

Federal Register Notices

Below, visitor may download copies of our federal notices describing repatriatable Alutiiq Museum Collections.  These notices are organized generally by geographic region. If you have a question about a collection, a notice, or the repatriation process, or your would like to make a repatriation request, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  (486-7004, x24).
 

Learn More

These web sites and books provide additional information on the history of the repatriation movement and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

1. National NAGPRA Homepage
2. Protecting Graves in Alaska
3. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare , 2002, Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA.  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
4. Davind Hurst Thomas, 2001, Skulls Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. Basic Books.
5. Tamara L. Bray & Thomas W. Killion, eds., 1994, Reckoning with the Dead: The Larsen Bay Repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

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