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Session 2 with Suzan Shown Harjo, brings a living voice to the vocabulary used in NAGPRA and Repatriation, but it didn’t come easy. Join THPO Talk Host Sheila Bird as she welcomes Co-Host RaeLynn Butler and brand new respondent, Chase Ward into the discussion.

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Suzan Shown Harjo has led a lifetime of advocacy for Indigenous Rights. Her contribution would change the face of NAGPRA and other significant movements in Indian Country. Join THPO Talk as we begin this holistic series and take this walk with us as we journey through this epic series with Suzan.

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Join Host Sheila Bird, co-host Deanna Byrd and two former National Park Service (NPS) employees join THPO Talk and talk about their termination as a result of the Trump Workforce Reduction Executive Order and how the absence will impact tribes and their repatriation efforts.

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Join us on this episode as host Sheila Bird (United’ Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) brings together the three original THPO Talk Women’s Council to talk about their continued work in Preservation and Repatriation efforts.

The recording has been divided into two parts, and in Part 1, Deanna Byrd (Choctaw) will be talking about her new role at Harvard University, the challenges and the progress.

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Join host Sheila Bird and her guest Charles “Chip” Smith, as they start off Season 3 with a discussion about the turn of 2025 and the Presidential Transition before the Transition. How will the content compare to today’s events.

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Join Host of THPO Talk; Sheila Bird, as she gets a first hand accounting from Shawn Patch, who was in attendance at the North Carolina Auction at the attempt to auction the human remains of what we know to be an adolescent from the First Nation of Canada on Saturday March 25th, 2023.

Activists from the community and across the United States made enough noise to stop the sale. This episode also talks about how local NC government was not able to stop the sale.

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