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...Narragansett Indian tribe will soon file a lawsuit against Harvard to recover tribal remains currently displayed in the University's Peabody museum, a Narragansett official said yesterday...
John Brown, historic preservation officer for the Narragansett Tribe said yesterday evening that the issue "is in the process of being taken to the courts...
...Narragansett will make its claim under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which requires museums such as Harvard's Peabody to repatriate American Indian remains to federally recognized tribes...
...said the Peabody Museum has repatriated three collections of human remains, including 50 individuals to the Narragansett in 1972, before NAGPRA, six individuals to the Northern Cheyenne in 1993 and 167 individuals to Hawaii...
Last week the Coast Guard, National Guardsmen and private contractors made unusually good progress in cleaning up the uncanny string of spills. In Narragansett Bay, where the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a reef and spewed 420,000 gals. of No. 2 fuel oil, most of the residue had evaporated or was rounded up by week's end. While the fuel may have long-term toxic effects on some marine life, fishermen were able to harvest shellfish for the first time since the accident. After an initial investigation, the ship's captain, Iakovos Georgudis, was charged with one misdemeanor count...