Caring for tataayiyam honuuka’ (Ancestors) Affected by Past Museum Practices
Description:
In this video, Lylliam Posadas, NAGPRA Coordinator at the Autry Museum of the American West; Desiree Martinez, Project Archaeologist at Cogstone Resource Management; Özge Gençay-Üstün, Conservator at the Autry Museum of the American West; Karimah Kennedy-Richardson, Staff Archaeologist at the Autry Museum of the American West, discuss a cross-disciplinary model for how Native communities and museum professionals in archaeology, NAGPRA, and conservation departments can engage in caring for ancestral remains. This video supplements the session, "Caring for tataayiyam honuuka’ (Ancestors) Affected by Past Museum Practices" given at the 2017 ATALM annual conference held in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, on October 10-13, 2017.