Land Acknowledgment

[History Colorado's Land Acknowledgment] We acknowledge that the land currently known as Colorado has been the traditional homelands of Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. We are grateful to work in partnership with the 51 sovereign nations who continue to call this land home. Together, we plan exhibits; collect, preserve, and interpret artifacts; do archaeological work; and create educational programs to share the history of Colorado.

NAGPRA & Tribal Consultation

NAGPRA is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a federal law that was enacted in 1990. History Colorado operates in full compliance with this act to return sacred objects, funerary items, objects of cultural patrimony, and other cultural items to the Indigenous peoples from which they were taken, as well as to work with tribal consultants to protect indigenous sacred sites and graves.

The guiding philosophy of History Colorado's NAGPRA program is to establish a relationship of cooperation and partnership with Native American communities and lineal descendants. To learn more about NAGPRA and how History Colorado is working to meet these standards, please visit the following pages:

NAGPRA Program History Colorado has adopted an active program of implementing the provisions of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Our NAGPRA program philosophy is summarized in the following statement:

NAGPRA calls for the establishment of new relationships between museums and Native Americans—relationships that reflect a spirit of cooperative interaction and partnership. It is of critical importance that History Colorado staff and administrators support an approach to NAGPRA issues that reflects a commitment to sustaining such relationships. This requires open and full communications with interested Native American communities and lineal descendants regarding History Colorado collections, as well as an institutional intent to consider repatriation claims for human remains and objects that fall under the law.

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