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Up to and into the 20th century, private collectors, museums, and federal agencies created collections of Native American human remains and other objects unearthed during archeological and anthropological expeditions on tribes’ homelands.

NAGPR addressed the rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations to certain Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony found in Federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funds, and addressed trafficking of these materials by private individuals.

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More than 353,000 unassociated funerary objects have been repatriated,

About 22,600 other cultural items have been repatriated,

82 Review Committee meetings have been held between FY 1990-FY 2022,

$59,111 has been collected in civil penalties for failures to comply, and

$56 million has been awarded in NAGPRA grants.

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NAGPRA's limitations do not only manifest in its lack of extraterritorial effect. Even domestically, courts have often interpreted NAGPRA restrictively, with little understanding of Native American cultures.

The statute’s lack of extraterritorial reach renders it once again merely moral support in arguments for
repatriation of cultural items held outside of the United States.

NAGPRA is both a human rights law and a cultural heritage law. Through NAGPRA, Congress acknowledged that human remains and other cultural items in holdings or collections or removed from federal or tribal lands belong to lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations. The law opened paths for museums, federal agencies, and Native Americans to work together to identify and return human remains and funerary objects to their communities of origin.

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NAGPR was a big step for America towards a better future however it is not without it's issues, like any act. People are conflicted because there is proof it is not as effective as it appears even with all the statistics, Because legally it actually doesn't have much reach into other territories. Has it done some good? Yes, however this should be one of many steps toward a better future not the final one.

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Native Americans seek reparations in different forms: Part 1 | Nightline