Video Excerpts from May 2011 Delaware Tribe NAGPRA Summit
These videos are provided to give a taste of the presentations at the first NAGPRA Summit in May 2011. This summit, part of NAGPRA-sponsored project aimed at further repatriation efforts, was held at the Delaware Community Center in Bartlesville, OK, and was attended by over 50 tribal members and guests.
Video Excerpt: Eric Hollinger
This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Eric Hollinger at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.
Overview of Delaware Repatriations from the Delaware Water Gap Region
Copyright 2011, Eric Hollinger. All rights reserved.
Eric Hollinger is a Repatriation Case Officer in the Repatriation Office of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, who facilitated the recent repatriation of Delaware burials for reburial at the Delaware Water Gap in 2009. He formerly worked in the Repatriation Department of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, one of the three museums that the Tribe is currently consulting for the repatriation of Delaware burials from several locations in New Jersey.Video Excerpt: James Jackson
This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by James Jackson at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.
Delaware Burial Customs
Copyright 2011, James Jackson. All rights reserved.
James Jackson is a Delaware tribal elder. He has participated in numerous Delaware funerals, and served as one of the tribal representatives for the reburial at the Delaware Water Gap in 2009.Video Excerpt: Dustin Cushman
This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Dustin Cushman at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.
Tokens Of Love: The Use Of Burial Ritual In Reinforcing Delaware Identity and Community
Copyright 2011, Dustin Cushman. All rights reserved.
Dustin Cushman is completing his doctorate at Temple University, where he specializes in Delaware archaeology. His dissertation will focus on Delaware mortuary customs in the Late Woodland and Historic periods.Video Excerpt: Titus Frenchman
This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Titus Frenchman at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.
Delaware Burial Customs
Copyright 2011, Titus Frenchman. All rights reserved.
Titus Frenchman is President of the Council of Lenape Elders. He has his B.S. degree from the University of California at Davis, Davis, California in Applied Behavioral Science, with emphasis in Native American Studies. He is a full-blood Delaware, from the Frenchman and Beaver families. He served as one of the tribal representatives for the reburial at the Delaware Water Gap in 2009. His presentation was focused on his experiences conducting and attending Delaware funerals over the course of his lifetime.Video Excerpt: Jay Custer
This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Jay Custer at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.
Rethinking Pit Features and Grave Offerings from the Delmarva Peninsula
Copyright 2011, Jay Custer. All rights reserved.
Jay Custer was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. He has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware since 1979 and has been Director of the Center for Archaeological Research since its founding in 1983. His research interests have focused on the archaeological and anthropological study of the past and present indigenous people of the Middle Atlantic region with a focus on southeastern Pennsylvania and the Delmarva Peninsula.
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