A growing number of U.S. schools are taking steps to return items taken from grave sites that violate the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
and all of that as things that have happened because people were controlling Native peoples’ lives.” Removing Indigenous ancestors from their graves is yet another way of controlling Native people even after they have passed on, as well as inflicting emotional damage on the living.
The emotional and spiritual harm of these acts is something that Indigenous people feel acutely. Martinez described this pain, saying, “It’s hard…it’s never easy even thinking about how the ancestors were treated in the past and how they’re still being treated.” Lippert said one of the hardest parts in explaining NAGPRA is trying to get people to understand why it’s so vital for Indigenous people to claim their dead.
Beisaw elaborated on how the U.S. education system has a colonialist mindset toward Native cultures. “We also need to learn that we don’t really know, as Americans, enough about Native America, but yet we’re so clamoring toProper understanding of Native histories comes from teaching children about the profound pain that the U.S. wrought on Indigenous people in our nation-building.
But in learning about the past, it’s important not to forget the present pain and power of Indigenous struggle. Lippert said one of the hardest things was seeing remains in a museum listed as “Choctaw woman, age 30–40.” That described me, and it’s hard to see…a description of yourself as a set of remains that were collected and are in a museum.
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