Discover Auburn Lecture-Archaeology collections and compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

The history of Auburn University’s archaeological collections and compliance efforts with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, will be the focus of the next AU Libraries Discover Auburn Lecture Series on Thursday, March 23, at 3 p.m. in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Meghan Buchanan, associate professor of anthropology, and Michael Walters, AU NAGPRA coordinator, will be the speakers. NAGPRA was passed by Congress in 1990 and provides a process for museums and federal agencies to return Native American cultural items, human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony that may have been taken without consent of their respective lineal descendants, Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. NAGPRA also authorizes federal grants to Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations and museums to assist with the documentation and repatriation of Native American cultural items.

The lecture is open to the public and will take place in the Caroline Marshall Draughon Auditorium on the ground floor of RBD Library.