Audio program from KJZZ on Looting of Prehistory Artifacts
( Phoenix, AZ ) KJZZ's Here and Now explored the black market of Native artifacts. Utah U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman discussed the federal indictments of two dozen people in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. NPR reporter Howard Berkes and Santa Fe New Mexican Tom Sharpe dicussed the impact of the federal investigation. Former Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton and Sherry Hutt, program manager for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act discussed the laws that protect Native artifacts.