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Published online 24 October 2007 | Nature 449, 952-953 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449952a
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Laws under review for fossils on native land
Questions raised over fate of non-human remains.
A push is underway, in the heartland of US dinosaur-hunting country, to introduce new laws to regulate the fate of non-human fossils found on Native American lands.
The drive, initiated in Nebraska, is to create legislation similar to that controlling the handling and repatriation of Native American human remains, the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
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