A decade after the Vermillion Accord: what has changed and what has not?

In 1989, the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) held its first Inter-Congress, ‘Archaeological Ethics and the Treatment of the Dead’, in Vermillion, South Dakota. Some 200 delegates came from more than 20 countries and included indigenous people from 27 American Indian nations, as well as from Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Africa.