Cultivating Ethical Practices for Implementing The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

培养实施美洲原住民坟墓保护和遣返法案的道德实践

• 批准号: 1449465
• 负责人: April Sievert
• 金额: $ 19.47万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1449465&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cultivating; Ethical; Practices; Implementing; Native

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10) enacted by Congress in 1990 establishes the rights of federally recognized U.S. tribes to ascertain the whereabouts of culturally affiliated ancestral human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony, and to request repatriation of these items. The law requires scientists in the archaeological, anthropological and museum sciences to consult with tribes on matter of research, documentation, and repatriation. Even after 20 years scientists in many cases remain unsure how best to proceed in order to comply with the regulations and still use materials subject to NAGPRA in research. This project will build a NAGPRA training toolkit by bringing interdisciplinary stakeholders together to study training and build curriculum. During the initial phase of the project funded by the award the team will conduct a survey to assess current training, will develop a database of contact information and extant training materials, produce a white paper on the alignment of NAGPRA requirements with the Code of Conduct of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, distribute a newsletter to tribal entities, colleges, and cultural resource personnel, and conduct the first of several planned Collegium meetings at which faculty, consultants, and students will participate in open and equitable dialogue and joint research to ascertain how the ethics of their fields of study are taught and learned with respect to NAGPRA including direct exposure in the classroom as part of undergraduate or graduate coursework, and through mentorship of students via faculty research committees, advising, and lab or field supervision and instruction. NAGPRA mandates interpolating multiple ways of knowing about peoples of the past. Implementation of NAGPRA has brought scientists into close interaction with descendent communities who may reckon, view, and understand their past in ways that seem at odds with the epistemologies of Western science. Indigenous worldviews may use origin narratives, oral histories, cosmologies, and cultural traditions as sources of knowledge about the past. The ethical principles that come to play with NAGPRA require increased understanding and appreciation of multiple ways of knowing by both scientists and adherents to alternative views. Hence, analyzing how scientists learn about and cope with NAGPRA targets core values and philosophies held by scientists and juxtaposes these with indigenous impressions both about the past and about what scientists do. The collegium convened to study and improve on training materials takes a practical problem and uses it to address fundamental distinctions made between scientific and alternative world-views.

国会在1990年制定的《美国原住民坟墓保护与遣返法》（Nagpra，43 CFR 10）建立了联邦认可的美国部落的权利，以确定文化相关的祖先人类遗体，葬礼对象，葬礼对象，sacred对象，sacred对象，sacred对象以及对这些项目的求职物品的对象。该法律要求考古，人类学和博物馆科学中的科学家与研究，文档和遣返的部落进行协商。即使经过20年的科学家，在许多情况下，科学家仍然不确定如何最好地继续遵守法规，并且仍在研究中使用nagpra的材料。 该项目将通过将跨学科利益相关者聚集在一起学习培训和建立课程来建立NAGPRA培训工具包。 在奖励资助的项目的初始阶段中，团队将进行一项调查以评估当前培训，将开发一个联系信息和现有培训材料数据库，生产一份关于Nagpra要求与专业考古学家登记簿保持一致性的白皮书开放，公平的对话和联合研究，以确定如何在本科或研究生课程的一部分中教授和学习有关Nagpra的研究领域的道德规范，包括在课堂上直接接触，并通过教师研究委员会的指导，建议，实验室或实地监督和实地监督和指导。 Nagpra要求插值多种了解过去人民的方式。 Nagpra的实施使科学家与后代社区有着密切的互动，他们可能会以与西方科学的认识论相矛盾的方式估计，查看和理解自己的过去。土著世界观可以使用原点叙事，口述历史，宇宙学和文化传统作为有关过去的知识来源。与Nagpra一起发挥的道德原则需要提高科学家和信徒对替代观点的多种认识方式的理解和欣赏。因此，分析科学家如何学习并应对Nagpra的目标是科学家所拥有的核心价值观和哲学，并将其与关于过去及其科学家所做的土著印象并列。召集的旨在研究和改进培训材料的委员会解决了一个实际问题，并使用它来解决科学和替代世界观看之间的基本区别。