---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 80q–12"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "80q–12"
heading: "Grants by Secretary of the Interior to assist Indian tribes with respect to agreements for return of Indian human remains and Indian funerary objects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/80q-12"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter XIII — National Museum of the American Indian"
---

# §80q–12. Grants by Secretary of the Interior to assist Indian tribes with respect to agreements for return of Indian human remains and Indian funerary objects

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of the Interior may make grants to [Indian tribes](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=8) to assist such tribes in reaching and carrying out agreements with—
  - (1) the [Board of Regents](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=1) for the return of [Indian](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=7) human remains and [Indian](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=7) [funerary objects](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=4) under [section 80q–9 of this title](/usc/20/80q–9.md); and
  - (2) other Federal and non-Federal entities for additional returns of [Indian](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=7) human remains and [Indian](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=7) [funerary objects](/usc/20/80q–14.md?p=4).
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1991 and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years for grants under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–185, § 14, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1345.)