Tennessee State Prepares to Repatriate County Burial Items
Published Date: 7/29/2025
Notice
Summary
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation just finished checking old human remains and burial items from four Tennessee counties. They found these remains are connected to Native American tribes, so they’re letting everyone know to follow the rules about returning these items. This means tribes can expect these important cultural items to be handled with respect and care soon.
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NAGPRA inventory completed; tribes notified
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation finished an inventory under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of human remains and funerary objects from Bedford, Coffee, Grundy, and Moore Counties, Tennessee. The agency determined there is a cultural affiliation between those remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations and published that determination in this notice.
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