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Sunday, July 31, 2022

Returning UC's Native American Artifacts

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An AP article includes a searchable table concerning Native American artifacts in the hands of universities, museums, and other institutions that are supposed to be returned to tribes. UC-Berkeley tops the list. Above is the listing for all UC campuses. From the article:

...Some 870,000 Native American artifacts — including nearly 110,000 human remains — that should be returned to tribes under federal law are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the country, according to an Associated Press review of data maintained by the National Park ServiceThe University of California, Berkeley tops the list, followed closely by the Ohio History Connection, the state’s historical society. State museums and universities in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois and Kansas as well as Harvard University round out the other top institutions...

Dan Mogulof, an assistant vice chancellor at UC Berkeley, says the university is committed to repatriating the entire 123,000 artifacts in question “in the coming years at a pace that works for tribes.” ...

Full story at https://apnews.com/article/travel-education-museums-massachusetts-eb338326dd75fc0b1ab65b2f10d027af.

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