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24 Ariz. St. L.J. 175 (1992)
Implementing the National Policy of Understanding, Preserving, and Safeguarding the Heritage of Indian Peoples and Native Hawaiians: Human Rights, Sacred Objects, and Cultural Patrimony

handle is hein.journals/arzjl24 and id is 189 raw text is: Implementing the National Policy of Understanding, Preserving, and Safeguarding the Heritage of Indian Peoples and Native Hawaiians: Human Rights, Sacred Objects, and Cultural Patrimony Rennard Strickland* You whites assumed we were savages. You didn't understand our prayers. You didn't try to understand. When we sang our praises to the sun or moon or wind, you said we were worshipping idols. Without understanding, you condemned us as lost souls just because our form of worship was different from yours. We saw the Great Spirit's work in almost everything: sun, moon, trees, wind, and mountains. Sometimes we approached him through these things. Was that so bad? I think we have a true belief in the supreme being, a stronger faith than that of most of the whites who have called us pagans. ... Indians living close to nature and nature's ruler are not living in darkness. -- Walking Buffalo (1871-1967)1 I. INTRODUCTION During the House debate on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),2 Congresswoman Patsy Mink of * B.A., Northeastern Oklahoma State University; J.D., University of Virginia; M.A., University of Arkansas; S.J.D., University of Virginia. Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy, University of Oklahoma; Editor-in-Chief, Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (3d ed. 1982). The author served as the research associate for the Panel for a National Dialogue on Museum/Native American Relations and was a member of the Association of American Museums Task Force on Repatriation of Native American Ceremonial Objects and Human Remains. The author thanks Dr. Edwin L. Wade with whom he has worked for more than ten years in the study of the art of Native Americans. Much of the analysis in this essay is the product of that collaboration. 1. GRANT MAcEwAN, TATANGA MANI: WALKING BuFFALO OF TI STONrEs 181-82 (1969) (quoting Chief Walking Buffalo). 2. 25 U.S.C.A. §§ 3001-3013 (West Supp. 1991) (reprinted in appendix).

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