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Key Milestone Dates
1.  Rights of Ancestral Return
 
  • Reinterment of Human Remains and Related Artifacts October 4, 2003
2.  Interagency Agreement Between the General Services Administration and the National Park Service for the Development and Public Involvement of the Exterior Memorial and the Interpretive Center
 
  • September 2003
3.  Exterior Memorial
 
  • Five Finalists Announced February 2003
  • National Park Service Commences Focus Group Meetings January 2004
  • Construction Completion Fall CY 2007
4.  Interpretive Center
 
  • National Park Service Commences Focus Group Meetings January 2004
  • Construction Completion Date End of CY 2007
     
5.  Artifact Reproduction
 
  • Completion Date Summer 2007
6.  Scientific Research by Howard University
 
  • Final History Report November 2004
  • Final Bio-Skeletal Report (Anthropology) February 2005
  • Final Archaeology Report Summer 2005
  • Integrated and Popular Reports Winter 2007