NAGPRA at Berkeley Pt. 2 Melanie O'brien Indigenous United Podcst

This is the second episode in our three part series about the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) at UC Berkeley. In this episode we focus on implementation of NAGPRA through an interview with Melanie O’brien. Melanie is the manager of the national NAGPRA program and oversees and administers the national implementation of NAGPRA. She tells us what the law requires and how it is implemented particularly in California for federally unrecognized tribes.

To search for what local museums and institutions are holding use this database to view inventories, summaries and Federal Register Notices:
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/databases.htm

Here is a link to the tableau visuals showing the status of NAGPRA cases that Melanie mentions in the interview:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/melanie.obrien#!

For more information about the Jefferson excavation she mentions visit:https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-excavation-indian-burial-mound