Bernstein & Associates

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Consultants

Our services

Needs Assessment, Survey, Audit, & Strategic Planning

Working closely with the clients, we assess their individual needs and break those needs down into manageable projects with realistic timelines, providing a strategic plan tailored specifically to the client’s unique situation.

NAGPRA & CalNAGPRA Collections Provisions Compliance

Needs Assessment, Survey, Audit, & Strategic Planning

Because of the long-standing, positive working relationships that we have built with Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations throughout the country, we are extremely successful in aiding clients in the preparation of culturally sensitive NAGPRA Summaries and Inventories.

NAGPRA Grant Proposal Development

Needs Assessment, Survey, Audit, & Strategic Planning

Consultation Facilitation & Meeting Planning

We consistently develop successful Consultation/Documentation and Repatriation grant proposals. Since we began writing NAGPRA grants in 1995, our grants have secured over $2,000,000 of funding for our clients, with grants being funded every year.

Consultation Facilitation & Meeting Planning

Tribal representatives frequently praise our culturally sensitive, insightful, and respectful approach to consultation. We provide support for all phases of consultation, including planning, facilitation, documentation, and follow-up.

NAGPRA & CalNAGPRA Technical Assistance

Consultation Facilitation & Meeting Planning

NAGPRA & CalNAGPRA Technical Assistance

We work with our clients to develop successful repatriation claims, disposition offers, and repatriation requests.

NAGPRA & Cultural Sensitivity Training

Consultation Facilitation & Meeting Planning

NAGPRA & CalNAGPRA Technical Assistance

Our Managing Director, Jan Bernstein, provides highly regarded customized seminars, webinars, workshops, and talks on all aspects of NAGPRA. Training participants consistently rate her training as excellent.

Reinterment Support

File Organization & Maintenance

Reinterment Support

When called upon, we have provided a wide range of reinterment support. We done everything from finding land for reinterment, transporting Ancestors and funerary belongings, facilitating intertribal/interinstitutional planning meeting, bundling Ancestors and funerary belongings, writing NAGPRA Repatriation grant proposals, planning, and participating in reinterments.

Policy Development

File Organization & Maintenance

Reinterment Support

We take a collaborative approach to help clients develop policies, procedures, and moratoriums addressing NAGPRA, as well as indigenizing curation practices and the acquisition and curation of human remains not covered by NAGPRA.

File Organization & Maintenance

We provide guidance on archival procedure, handling, organization, and storage of culturally sensitive materials. We assist Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations to assign access restrictions to physical and digital collections.

We also organize, both digitally and physically, documentation associated with NAGPRA implementation activities. Clients receive a personalized version of our Data Management System, refined over decades of work.