UC Berkeley is returning the remains through the school’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act committee, which processes claims made by tribes requesting artifacts in the s…
its policies last month to stop research on remains and create a board with tribal leaders to facilitate consent that would allow for research or repatriation of remains.Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act committeeThe act was passed in 1990 to recognize that remains deserve to be “treated with dignity and respect,” and that objects removed from tribal lands belong to descendants and museums and universities must return them.
The ancestral remains that were repatriated to Wiyot people in the past year are at least 150 years old, according to Hernandez. Welcoming home their ancestors marks long-anticipated justice and a sense of peace. Hernandez said his tribe is in the process of receiving more ancestral remains and objects from the university, and hopes the partnership between Berkeley and Indigenous tribes can set a precedent for other institutions.The University of California system started prohibiting research on all Indigenous ancestral remains in 2018. After reports exposed UC Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of, in 2020 the university created the new NAGPRA committee Agarwal now leads.
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