University of Texas at San Antonio
srussell@lonestar.jpl.utsa.ed
WEBSITES
- American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
- National Archaeological Data Base--NAGPRA
- Aboriginal Links: Canada & U.S.
BOOKS
American Indian Policy In The Twentieth Century (V. Deloria ed. 1985). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Hugh Y. Bernard, The Law of Death and Disposal of the Dead (1979). Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publications.
Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions (R. Layton ed. 1989). London: Unwin Hyman Ltd.
Documents Of United States Indian Policy (F. Prucha ed. 1990). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Roger C. Echo-Hawk & Walter R. Echo-Hawk. Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States. (1994). Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company.
Ethics and Values in Archaeology (E. Green ed. 1984). New York: Free Press.
Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. Constitution (1992). Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers.
Mending The Circle: A Native American Repatriation Guide (1996). American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation, 463 E. 57th St., New York, NY 10022.
George Mourt, Mourt's Relation: Journal of the Plantation At Plymouth 33-34 (1865 & photo reprint 1971). Boston: J. K. Wiggin. (Orig. ed. London 1622). Documents the first English graverobbing.
H. Marcus Price III, Disputing the Dead: U.S. Law on Aboriginal Remains and Grave Goods (1991). Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Use with caution. Contained errors at the time and is also out of date.
Proceedings of the Conference on Reburial Issues Held at the Newberry Library, Chicago (P. Quick, ed. June 14-15, 1985).
John R. Wunder, "Retained by the People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights. (1994) New York: Oxford University Press.
ARTICLES
Annot., Construction and Application of Graverobbing Statutes, 52 A.L.R. 3d 701 (1973).
Arden, An Indian Cemetary Desecrated: Who Owns Our Past?, 175 NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC 376 (1989).
Bahn, Do Not Disturb? Archaeology and the Rights of the Dead, 3 OXFORD J. OF ARCHAEOLOGY 127 (1984).
Bieder, The Collecting of Bones for Anthropological Narratives, 16 AM. INDIAN CULTURE & RESEARCH J. 21 (1992).
Bowman, The Reburial of Native American Skeletal Remains: Approaches to the Resolution of a Conflict, 13 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 147 (1989).
Boyd & Haas, The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Prospects for New Partnerships Between Museums and Native American Groups, 24 ARIZ. ST. L. J. 253 (1992).
Boyd, The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Reinstatement of Human Remains and Funerary Objects to Their Former State of Repose, 27 GONZ. L. REV. 423 (1992).
Cantwell, The Choir Invisible: Reflections on the Living and the Dead, 14 DEATH STUDIES 613 (1990).
Comment, Indian Burial Rights Issues: Preservation or Desecration?, 59 UMKC L. REV. 737 (1991).
Comment, One is Missing: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: An Overview and Analysis, 17 AM. INDIAN L. REV. 639 (1992).
Deloria, Indians, Archaeologists, and the Future, 57 AM. ANTIQUITY 595 (1992).
Deloria, Secularism, Civil Religion, and the Religious Freedom of American Indians, 16 AM. INDIAN CULTURE & RESEARCH J. 9 (1992).
Draper, Indian Takers, TEXAS MONTHLY, March 1993 at 104.
Elliott, Funerary Artifacts in Contemporary America, 14 DEATH STUDIES 601 (1990). Included for contrast with treatment of Indian graves.
