March 25, 2005
'Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity'
Bearing on bones, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990. Its mandate was sweeping. Among the law's provisions, writes Wesley Bernardini, an archaeologist, was that federally supported institutions would determine links between contemporary tribes and the artifacts and human remains in institutional collections.
That put new scrutiny on archaeological methods, he notes, and on the ways of reconstructing the identity and movement of
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