In response to the repatriation issue at UMass/Amherst and Five Colleges:

 We are deeply concerned about a claim that three Native tribes (STOCKBRIDGE MOHICAN, NARRAGANSET, & AQUINNAH) are making to SOKWAKI/ABENAKI & NIPMUC/CENTRAL CONNECTICUT RIVER ancestral remains, grave goods, and artifacts that are in the NAGPRA process at the FIVE COLLEGES including UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS/AMHERST in the central Connecticut River Valley.  

            Despite being asked repeatedly to collaborate with the ABENAKI NATION, NIPMUC TRIBES, and MASHPEE WAMPANOAG in a coalition to work on this important repatriation together, these three groups have decided to attempt to exclude the descendants of these Old Ones and require the NAGPRA COMMITTEE to tell UMASS/ AMHERST and the FIVE COLLEGES to only deal with them.