NAGPRA Compliance & Repatriation demo
Reconciles accession records and tracks tribal consultation and notices, for NAGPRA staff 1:30
What the demo shows
Reconciles accession records and tracks tribal consultation and notices, for NAGPRA staff
A Records agent reads the ledgers, field notes, catalog cards and database row behind every inventory line, reconciles counts, sites, dates and treatments, and cites every page; disagreements always go to a person. A Geography agent gathers the information the rule lists for consultation and never makes a determination. A Consent agent refuses, on screen and with the cited reason, every use without free, prior and informed consent on file. A Consultation agent keeps each Tribe's thread and clocks, a Notice agent drafts inventories and notices from approved lines in each Tribe's terms, and an Audit pack agent seals the record. The coordinator approves every line, the registrar applies every correction, the Tribes review in their own space and the Director signs every submission.
Transcript
- NAGPRA Compliance and Repatriation reconciles inventory records and tracks consultation, for NAGPRA staff.
- Under half of an estimated 210,000 ancestors in US institutions are available for return.
- One line meets three Tribes on March 12. It isn't ready.
- The Records agent marks where its four records disagree: site 17, or 71.
- A 1939 note settles it, and an arsenic treatment surfaces.
- Ruth corrects both with a reason; the registrar applies them.
- The Geography agent gathers evidence, but never decides affiliation.
- Each Tribe reviews it privately, in its own words, without images.
- The Consent agent refuses a lab's imaging request: no consent on file.
- Tribes review, the coordinator approves, the director signs: all logged.
- Seventy-four lines a month: on pace for 2029.
- Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.
The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.