Project Participants
The diverse group of consultants and contributors brought their wisdom, knowledge, experience, perspective, and time to contribute to research and create the Learning NAGPRA project website—they are the experts. Scholars with the Museum Studies Program at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, who developed and have been teaching a repatriation curriculum for years were primary consultants for the project. The individuals listed below provided content, media, review, and participation in the project for over four years.
Primary Consultants
Jessie Ryker-Crawford, Ph.D. (White Earth Chippewa)
Associate Professor of Museum Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts
Felipe J. Estudillo Colòn, (Laguna Pueblo)
Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts
Consultants
Angela Neller (Native Hawaiian), Curator Wanapum Heritage Center (Participant and Contributor)
Dru McGill, North Caroline State University, (Participant and Reviewer)
Daryl Baldwin (Myaamia) Myaamia Center, Miami University of Ohio (Participant)
Jeffrey Bendremer, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band (Participant and Contributor)
Carlina de la Cova, Professor, Anthropology, University of South Carolina (Participant and Contributor)
Desireé Martinez (Tongva) (Participant)
Patricia Powless (Indigenous S. America) (Participant and Contributor)
Kerry Sagebiel, Anthropology, Northern Illinois University (Participant and Contributor)
Velma (Kate) Valdez (Yakama) Participant and Reviewer)
Joe Watkins (Choctaw), Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution. (Participant and Contributor)
Carrie Wilson (Quapaw), NAGPRA Coordinator, Quapaw Tribe (Participant)
Teresa V. Wilson (Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone) Assistant Professor, Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, (Participant)
Larry Zimmerman, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, IUPUI (Participant and Contributor)
Graduate Student Participants
Over four years, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous graduate students participated in the Collegiums. IU graduate students had largely not had opportunities to communicate with Indigenous students. Affiliations are at time of participation, with position as of 2021 in parentheses.
Erin Donovan, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Leslie Drane Indiana University, (Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Indiana University)
Valentina Herrera (San Felipe Pueblo), IAIA, (University of New Mexico Graduate Program)
Krystiana Krupa, Indiana University (NAGPRA coordinator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). (Participant and research assistant)
Emily van Alst (Lakota), Indiana University, Ph. D. Candidate.
Gregorio Gonzales (Comanche and Genízaro). Anthropology, New Mexico State University
Ricardo Higelin Ponce de Leon, Indiana University, (Indigenous, Mexico) (Chair, Instituto de Estudios Superiores en Artes Escénicas de Oaxaca (IESAEO)
Rebecca Jacobs, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (Paper E. Lindle Craig Preservation Laboratory, IU Libraries, Bloomington, IN)
Jessica Harrison, Indiana University
Jordi Rivera Prince Fulbright Researcher (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida)
Rebekah Ryan, Student IUPUI (Collections Manager, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana)
Catherine Faith Smith (Indiana University), (NAGPRA Director, Florida University Museum, Gainesville)
Vickie Stone, IUPUI (Collections Manager, Coronado Historical Association Museum, Coronado, CA)
Davina Two Bears (Diné), Indiana University. (Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College)
Jake Viarrial (Pojoaque Pueblo), IAIA Tourism Coordinator, Poeh Cultural Center, jake_viarrial@pojoaque.org
Shannon Wagner. Graduate Student, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Research Assistants
Teeka Gray, Anthropology Indiana University, (Academic Advisor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), Indiana University) grayle@iu.edu
Jennifer St. Germain, Archaeology Collections Manager, Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Kelsey Grimm, Librarian, Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Yari Cruz Rios, Indiana University (Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies, Indiana University) yacruzri@iu.edu
Justina Bruns, student IAIA
Elizabeth Stahmer, student IAIA
James Rutherford, student IAIA
Lorenza Marcais, student IAIA
Panelists and Contributors
April Beisaw, Department of Anthropology, Vassar College. (Panelist)
Nicholas Bellantoni, Emeritus; Connecticut State Archaeologist, University of Connecticut (Contributor)
Marge Bruchac (Abenaki), University of Pennsylvania, mbruchac@sas.upenn.edu (Panelist)
Lee Clauss (San Manuel Band of Mission Indians), Consultant, Sherwood Valley Band Pomo
Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (Reviewer)
Mary Deleary, Institute of American Indian Arts. Classroom study.
Angela Doyle, USDA United States Forest Service, Hoosier National Forest, retired. (Contributor)
Kathleen Fine-Dare, Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, Professor emerita (Panelist)
Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Liaison, Curator, History Colorado, retired. (Panelist)
Lynn Hartman, (Ute Mountain Ute), lhartman@utemountain.org (Panelist)
Rebecca Hawkins, Owner, Algonquin Associates (an Indigenous-owned CRM company)
Kelly Jenks, Anthropology, New Mexico State University. kljenks@nmsu.edu (Teaching study)
Anne Kakaliouras Anthropology, Whittier College akakalio@whittier.edu (Panelist)
Frederika Kaestle, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Indiana University (Teaching study)
Thomas Killion, Anthropology, Wayne State University (Panelist)
Thomas F. King, author. (Contributor)
Benjamin Kracht Indigenous Studies and Anthropology, Northeastern State University, Tulsa, OK, kracht@nsuok.edu(Teaching Study)
Marc Levine, Associate Curator, Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma. mlevine@ou.edu (Panelist)
Dorothy Lippert (Choctaw), Repatriation, National Museum of Natural History, SI. lippertd@si.edu (Reviewer)
Timothy McKeown (Panelist)
Lara Noldner, NAGPRA Coordinator, Office of the State Archaeologist of Iowa (Contributor)
Julie Olds (Myaamia), Director, Cultural Preservation Office, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Contributor)
Dennis O’Rourke, Anthropology, University of Kansas, orourke@ku.edu (Panelist)
Charles Riggs, Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, riggs_c@fortlewis.edu ( )
Jen Shannon, Anthropology and Curator, University of Colorado, jshannon@colorado.edu
(Panelist)
Wendy Sutton, National NAGPRA Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region wendysutton@usda.gov(Contributor)
Sara Gonzalez, Anthropology, University of Washington. gonzalsa@uw.edu (Panelist)
Project Staff
The project team at Indiana University comprise mostly white female academics with experience in Euro-American anthropology, teaching archaeological ethics, studying teaching and learning, museum work, and repatriation. As such, we admittedly lack the perspective that Indigenous people have on the magnitude of historical trauma and oppression, and the harm of separating people from their land and their belongings. Brian Gilley (Alabama Creek, Cherokee) joined as co-PI and his perspectives on restorative justice and Indigenous pedagogy spurred and focused the directions that the project took. We all however, recognized the lack of appropriate pedagogy to teach about NAGPRA and repatriation to primarily non-Indigenous students, who we realized would become the future teachers about NAGPRA to university students. The IU team is responsible for organizing and performing research through survey and interview, organizing research presentations, convening and facilitating meetings and the three Collegiums, collectively working on learning, and building this website.
Project Manager:
Teresa Nichols, Ph.D., Grant and Program Manager, Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University. Dr. Nichols organized meetings, developed survey instruments and submitted IRB protocols. She analyzed survey data and presented results. Nichols also conducted 44 ethnographic interviews.
Senior Personnel:
Jennifer Meta Robinson, Ph.D. Professor of Practice, Anthropology, Indiana University
Katherine Kearns, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Development, Indiana University
Technology Director:
Crystal DeCell
Technology Director and Research Assistant for "Learning NAGPRA"
Web Developer:
Scott Cawthon
Web Developer and Research Assistant for "Learning NAGPRA"
Principal Investigators:
April Sievert, Emerita Faculty, Anthropology, Indiana University. asievert@indiana.edu.
April is a white cisgender woman, somewhat advanced in years. She hearkens from the industrial Great Lakes with its heritage of manufacturing, pollution, and rusting infrastructure. Her people came from eastern and northern Europe, were coal miners, salesmen, bartenders and housewives. She is a first-generation college student and studied at midwestern universities. As a child she collected (removed) artifacts from a site on an uncle's farm above Ohio's Black River, in a town with a private museum of Indigenous objects, including human remains. Those experiences stuck. Her first job after receiving a Ph.D. was with the Repatriation Office at the Smithsonian Institution. She conjured Learning NAGPRA, with co-PIs, to address the lag between NAGPRA’s passage and its implementation by non-Indigenous institutional archaeologists and museum personnel. She has written about stone technology, teaching and learning, use of museum collections, and repatriation.
Brian Gilley (Alabama Creek, Cherokee),
Co-PI of "Learning NAGPRA", Professor in the Department of Anthropology.
Anne Pyburn (PhD AZ, RPA)
Co-PI of "Learning NAGPRA", K. Anne Pyburn is a cisgender White woman of European descent. She is Provost Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University and President of the Open Anthropology Foundation (https://openant.org/). She has directed the excavation of three ancient Maya cities in Belize and co-directed excavation of a Mesolithic camp in Kyrgyzstan with Dr. Aida Abdykanova. She writes about the politics of archaeology in relation to human rights and supports grassroots community-based heritage preservation (https://www.sfu.ca/ipinch/project-components/community-based-initiatives/grassroots-resource-preservation-and-management-kyrgy/) as well as the use of archaeological evidence to substantiate Indigenous land claims and promote local control of economic development (https://www.saa.org/career-practice/online-seminars/seminar-details/2018/01/18/seminars/archaeology-and-economic-development-the-rules-of-engagement-(knowledge-series). Anne teaches research ethics, activism, ancient women, scientific reasoning, and archaeology of Bronze Age Central Asia and of the ancient Maya. To fund these interests, she has taken money from NSF, FAMSI, the Interamerican Foundation, the US State Department, IPinCH, Leverhulme, Fulbright, USAID, the AIA, and various universities. Her written work includes a monograph, edited volumes and about 100 articles.
Anne is a booster for the World Archaeological Congress (WAC, http://worldarch.org/wac-9/), which she has served as Vice President, and the Maya High School, Tumul K'in Center of Learning (http://www.tumulkin-learning-center.org/). She won an SAA presidential award for MATRIX (to improve archaeology teaching at the national level), chaired the ethics committee for the American Anthropological Association, won some teaching awards, directed six international field schools, and been invited to give lectures in 25 of the United States and in 15 countries.
Over the course of her career Anne has become committed to using archaeology to amplify the voices of peoples who have been silenced by Colonial regimes, and economic oppression. She has learned that Western science is not the only science, that some pasts bear repeating, that respect is culturally defined, that sadly archaeology tends to be used by the powerful to support the status quo, and that a PhD can indicate an open mind or a closed one.
Jayne-Leigh Thomas
Co-PI of "Learning NAGPRA", Senior scientist, Director Indiana University NAGPRA Office.