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OHA supports NAGPRA claimants' reburial plans for Mokapu collection at MCBH Kaneohe
Summary
Trustees adopted a resolution supporting claimants' reburial plans for remains held at Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i (Mokapu collection), with one trustee recusing; claimants told the committee the military has approved designs and construction bids are expected in February.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Beneficiary Advocacy & Empowerment committee voted to support Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) claimants’ reburial plans for the Mokapu collection at Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i, Kaneohe. The resolution passed with eight yes votes and one recusal.
OHA compliance archaeologist Kamakana Ferreira summarized the history: the Mokapu collection includes remains and funerary items displaced over decades by museum research and military construction; NAGPRA (federal law enacted in 1990) created a process for claimants to request the return and reburial of culturally…
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