UW System Awarded NAGPRA Documentation and Consultation Grant by National Park Service

The UWM Archaeological Research Laboratory Center led by Dr. Jennifer Haas, has been awarded a NAGPRA Documentation and Consultation Grant by the National Park Service. This grant will help facilitate repatriation efforts and strengthen relationships between the state of Wisconsin and its diverse Native community. Three other Wisconsin organizations also received grants to aid them in their repatriation efforts including Beloit College, the Forest County Potawatomi Community, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

Read more here: National Park Service awards $2.1 million for the return of Native American remains and sacred objects – Office of Communications (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.