Presented by Jenny Davis
Associate Professor, Anthropology and American Indian Studies
Director, American Indian Studies
Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Science
Drawing on work with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and international repatriation over the past eight years, this talk will discuss repatriation efforts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and more broadly across the United States. These efforts include the return of a range of collections back to their original communities that include oral histories, cultural objects and belongings, and Ancestral remains.
Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and the co-editor of the Studies in Language and Gender series at Oxford University Press. Her research interests sit at the intersections of Indigenous language futurism (including language reclamation & revitalization); Queer Indigenous Studies; Speculative fiction and poetry; NAGPRA & repatriation; and Indigenous, anti-colonial, collaborative, and community-based methods. At UIUC, she has developed the Native American and Indigenous Language (NAIL) Lab and the Center for Indigenous Science, and works toward the repatriation, co-curation, and care of Indigenous collections (osteological, archaeological, ethnographic, and archival) in both the United States and international contexts.
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