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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

"In America, the looting of Native American gravesites by private collectors and federally-funded organizations became recognized as such a problem that in 1990 President Bush passed the North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) which required human remains and funerary items from Native American burial sites on federal lands to be returned to the tribe with whom they were affiliated. Similar legislation was passed in regards to Pre-Columbian artwork coming into the United States from Mexico, and UNESCO in Europe held a convention in 1970 to call for the return of antiquities to their culture of origin. Many of the laws, however, are not retroactive, which means that some claimant cultures cannot legally get items back if they were obtained before the date of the legislation."

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