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Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?
Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

This anthology focuses on issues surrounding the repatriation of American Indian remains and artifacts, providing a wide range of viewpoints on ethical, legal, and cultural issues.

Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions.
Andrew Gulliford. University Press of Colorado, May 2000.

This book combines native oral histories, photographs, drawings, and case studies vital to the cultural preservation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Commentaries by curators, Native Peoples, and archaeologists, discuss the repatriation of human remains, the curation and exhibition of sacred masks and medicine bundles, and cultural compromises the in protection of sacred places on private, state and federal lands.

Sweet Medicine: Sites of Indian Massacres, Battlefields, and Treaties.
Photos by Drex Brooks, Essay by Patricia Nelson Limerick. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Presents recent photographs of important historic sites, many of which have been transformed into recreational areas or urban spaces.

The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Basic ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights.
Stephen Pevar, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. American Civil Liberties Union, 1992.

This ACLU handbook discusses the powers of Indian tribes; civil and criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations; Indian hunting, fishing and water rights; taxation; the Indian Civil Rights Act; the Indian Child Welfare Act; and tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians.

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