Word: indianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process that led to this exchange began nine years ago in Congressional boardrooms and has finally resulted in the return of the Peabody collection, which was arguably the most important collection of modern American Indian remains in the country-and certainly the largest...
...remains are being returned to New Mexico in compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, passed in 1990. According to the act, any museums with skeletal remains and "sacred objects" from American Indian tribes in their collections must return them to the tribes...
While the Smithsonian Institute, which has thelargest collection of American Indian remains inthe nation, is supplied with amillion-dollar-per-year appropriation fromCongress, the Peabody, which has been planningsince 1993, has had to look to more locally forfunding...
...research on the collection was not onlycrucial for understanding European influence onAmerican Indian culture, but also allowed crucialresearch on osteoporosis...
...audience member asked Rushdie whether he had reconsidered judgements he made as co-editor of an anthology of Indian fiction in light of critical response...