04/22/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"only 21 percent of institutions have fully resolved all claims on human remains/items under NAGPRA; is it accurate to say that 79 percent are in non-compliance?"
"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."
"Because the role that the ANCs had been playing, as you point out now, for two decades, had really helped facilitate not only the inventory but the ability to work on the repatriation efforts."
"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 ..."