| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1 | The History Cooperative

Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. By Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx + 250 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00, £49.95, cloth; $19.95, £15.50, paper.)
The Native American Graves and Protection Act of 1990, NAGPRA, established the proper legal treatment for the disposition of Indian remains, religious items, burial offerings, and objects of cultural patrimony found on Native and federal lands.	1
In the thirteen years since NAGPRA's passage, commentators have referred to the act as watershed legislation restoring the balance of power between tribes and the federal government and as human rights legislation restoring cultural, religious, and property rights to Native peoples. To others, NAGPRA represents the outcome of conflicts over science and religion and truth and myth, with science and truth losing. To many Native people, the law is a beginning, one step in a long journey toward individual and community healing.	2
Grave Injustice is a fine book that provides the reader with an understanding of the need for NAGPRA, the history of its passage and implementation to date, and the differing perceptions that people have of the law.	. . .

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