03/02/2016
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"It is time, it is past time, that this Committee exercises its oversight role to ensure that the tools Congress has given Federal agencies under the law are being used to safeguard tribal communities ..."
"I will say thank you also for acknowledging that in the last 50 years, Alaska has developed different institutional arrangements than that of our lower 48 brothers and sisters."
"While the protections afforded in NAGPRA may not be applicable in every instance, I do hope that this committee can have a discussion on how NAGPRA's already existing Federal framework may be one of t..."
"So, according, again, to the Department, since NAGPRA was enacted, apparently only 21 percent of museums subject to the Act have resolved all Native American human remains that are under their control..."