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"In the End, Our Message Weighs" Blood Run, NAGPRA, and American Indian Identity penelope kelsey and cari m. carpenter I do my best to shelter, keep them. Sometimes, perhaps remembering, from my tilled base, barely protecting gatherings a finger reaches out to test the temperature. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Blood Run Who speaks for the dead? The dead speak for the dead. Ellesa Clay High During a panel discussion of repatriation in 2004, Suzan Shown Harjo told a story about a group of Modoc peoples who once visited the Smithsonian in hopes of finding the skull of beloved leader Captain Jack, whose body had been beheaded in 1873. They found the skull on a desk, in use as an ashtray. In Harjo's words, "Well, since NAGPRA [Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act], that can no longer happen--not because of NAGPRA, just because they don't allow smoking in those institutions anymore."1 Harjo tells this story as a cautionary tale about the limits of NAGPRA and the ever-present need for vigilance over the safekeeping of Native ancestors. In keeping with this caution, we juxtapose Allison Hedge Coke's poetry collection Blood Run (2006) with the larger context in which NAGPRA
The American Indian Quarterly – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Feb 6, 2011
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