H.R. 6043 · 109th Congress
To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in…
Full title
To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in accordance with the original intent of Congress to require a significant relationship be found between remains discovered on federal lands and presently existing Native American tribes for those remains to be applicable under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
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Amends the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to redefine Native American to mean cultural items that have a significant and substantial genetic or cultural relationship, based on factors other than geography alone, to a presently existing tribe, people, or culture that is now indigenous to the United States.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Sep 7, 2006
Amends the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to redefine Native American to mean cultural items that have a significant and substantial genetic or cultural relationship, based on factors other than geography alone, to a presently existing tribe, people, or culture that is now indigenous to the United States.
Declares that nothing in such Act shall be deemed to restrict excavation, examination, investigation, or scientific study under the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 of any cultural item found on federal land that has not been determined to be the property of an Indian or a Native Hawaiian organization.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
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Official title: To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in accordance with the original intent of Congress to require a significant relationship be found between remains discovered on federal lands and presently existing Native American tribes for those remains to be applicable under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Latest action (Sep 18, 2006): Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Policy area: Native Americans · Origin: House · Introduced: Sep 7, 2006
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No recorded floor vote found.