This event is presented as a part of the Festival of Science 2022 "Pyramids to the Peaks." What is repatriation and what does it mean to honor cultural property rights in archives and anthropological work? Join us at the East Flagstaff Community Library for a panel discussion on cultural property, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials from experts in archives, cultural property, and anthropology. This panel is in partnership with Cline Library Special Collections and Archives.

Panel members include:

• Mowana Lomaomvaya, MLS: Mowana L. Lomaomvaya is from the Hopi Tribe, from the village of Hotevilla. She earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology from Northern Arizona University, and a Master of Legal Studies with a concentration in Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy from The University of Arizona. She is a Research Specialist in the Archaeological Records Office at the Arizona State Museum.

• Ora Marek-Martinez, PhD: As the Associate Vice President of the Office of Native American Initiatives within the Native American Cultural Center, Dr. Marek-Martinez's work includes supporting and ensuring the success of NAU Native American and Indigenous students through Indigenized programming and services to meet the unique needs of our students. As an Assistant Professor in the NAU Anthropology Department, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology and Indigenous Heritage management, including research and approaches that utilize ancestral knowledge and storytelling in the creation of archaeological knowledge. Other research interests include southwestern archaeology, Indigenous futurisms, and decolonizing and Indigenizing archaeological narratives of the cultural landscape on Indigenous homelands as a way to reaffirm Indigenous connections to land and place. Her current research focuses on a Flagstaff Indigenous Heritage Trail project, and an ethnographic research project on Indigenous archaeology that will contribute to the efforts in our discipline to move archaeology beyond its colonial origin. Dr. Marek-Martinez is also a founding member of the Indigenous Archaeology Collective.
• Sara Guzman, MLIS: Sara Guzman is a Diné-Xicana Archivist for the Tohono O’odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum. She obtained her Master’s Degree from the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources & Library Science as a Knowledge River Scholar in Cohort 12. As an Indigenous tribal archivist and Knowledge-River scholar she is dedicated to the preservation of the cultural and historical heritage of tribal communities and providing information services to rural Indigenous communities.
• Peter Bungart, Consulting Anthropologist: Peter has been a practicing archaeologist & anthropologist in the Southwest for 40 years. He has worked in various national parks and forests, as well as for several tribal nations, including the Hualapai, Navajo, Hopi, and Yavapai Apache. He was most recently the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Hualapai Tribe, a position he left in 2021.

• Donovan Pete (Diné), MLIS: Navajo Nation Library

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