Help Us Hold Harvard Accountable
Sign Our Petition
The ability to bury your dead and manifest your culture and religion are recognized human rights. After 33 years of federal law recognizing that institutions do not properly "own" Native cultural heritage, Harvard continues to delay and cause hardship to Native Nations that seek to return their Ancestors to the earth.
We encourage you to hold Harvard University and its Peabody Museum, as well as its Warren Anatomical Museum, and all other departments and schools at Harvard, accountable for the mandates of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Harvard must change the manner in which they do business by opening their hearts and minds to Native Nations and NAGPRA experts that have been working for 30 years to convince Harvard that their actions are callous, unjustified, and racist. Harvard must obtain the free, prior and informed consent of Native Nations in all matters concerning their cultural heritage.
We encourage you to hold Harvard University and its Peabody Museum, as well as its Warren Anatomical Museum, and all other departments and schools at Harvard, accountable for the mandates of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Harvard must change the manner in which they do business by opening their hearts and minds to Native Nations and NAGPRA experts that have been working for 30 years to convince Harvard that their actions are callous, unjustified, and racist. Harvard must obtain the free, prior and informed consent of Native Nations in all matters concerning their cultural heritage.
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Read our Letter
On February 18, 2021 the Association sent a letter to Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow calling on Harvard to comply with NAGPRA and require the free, prior and informed consent of Native Nations before research can be performed on those collections. Read the letter here or below then take action and help us! |
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