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Science on Tap's monthly talk series has moved online! We want to acknowledge that this monthly talk will be held on Indigenous People’s day. While there is a lot to talk about related to public health in Native communities, we had to compete with the National Tribal Health Conference which will begin the next morning. So: we're talking about things we can directly affect as allies! We also encourage everyone to check out this action doc and support the efforts to combat covid-19, which is hitting Native American communities particularly hard.

Join Mütter Museum collections manager Lowell Flanders for a discussion of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA,) and what it means in practice for museums with human remains in their collections.

About the Speaker: Lowell Flanders

Lowell Flanders specializes in collections management and object registration. He received a bachelor’s in biological anthropology and his master’s in museum studies from George Washington University and has worked with museum collections for a decade or so at various institutions. He currently raising two toddlers while mostly working from home, and seems intact so far.

(Photo courtesy of the San Diego Museum of Man, via NPS.GOV)