Each U.S. Army Corps of Engineers District is responsible for the long-term care of all archaeological collections recovered from its properties. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) requires Corps Districts (and other federal agencies) to identify within archaeological collections all Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. This law directs agencies to develop agreements on the repatriation or disposition of these human remains and objects with federal agencies and Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. In 2001, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District (Mobile District) contracted Brockington and Associates to prepare a complete 43CFR1 0.9 (Section 5) Inventory and 43CFR1 0.8 Section 6 Summary of all NAGPRA-related items from the Alabama River Lakes sites. The items are currently curated at Moundville Archaeological Park's David L. DeJarnette Laboratory of Archaeology (DLDLA), the University of Alabama's Laboratory of Human Osteology, and the Riverbend Research Facility Laboratory of Archaeology (RRFLA).
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