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The United States has now experienced a decade of life under the new conditions inaugurated by the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. NAGPRA legislation forced a long-overdue engagement of archaeologists and museums with native peoples, an engagement that continues to unfold, both as a source of enrichment in perspectives, and as the origin of dilemmas that go to the heart of understandings of concepts which many consider basic to democratic societies.
Rosemary A. Joyce (Wed,) studied this question.