Regarding Repatriation: Museums and Native Communities Today

Event cosponsored by HHREC

Join us for a conversation about the 2024 revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), including its effects on museums and Native communities featuring Danyelle Means, Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM and co-curator of the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s (KHC) 2019-20 exhibition, Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island: Engaging with Contemporary Native American Art.

This event is part of the 2024-25 Human Rights and the Museum Series, a collaboration between the KHC and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College (QCC). It is co-sponsored by the Museum Studies MA Program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; and the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity Western Washington University.