Lanier saw NAGPRA as a model for federal protection of slavery relics

Evidence

I knew that the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act had been signed in 1990 and thought that we needed federal legislation protecting the relics of slavery as well. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to NAGPRA repatriation law and how a similar framework could govern ownership of enslaved people’s images — parallels the broader repatriation/afterlife-of-slavery thesis.
• QUESTION: Was any such federal bill protecting relics of slavery ever introduced or modeled on NAGPRA?