How Cal State Fullerton is repatriating Native American artifacts and human remains

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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez covers higher education for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.

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The long push to repatriate the artifacts and human remains also points to a sea change in the ways non-Native American institutions view cultural artifacts and human remains: From sought-after collectibles to study and display, to cultural items to be returned to tribes and evidence of the historic mistreatment of Native Americans.The items at Cal State Fullerton can be found in the basement of McCarthy Hall, a six-floor building that’s one of the oldest buildings on campus.

But doing so, tribal consultants told her, might mean items that belong to different tribes are missed. So now Lonski and her staff are verifying what’s in the boxes to make sure tribes are “getting back their ancestors and their belongings, all of their belongings,” she said.The audit found that there are 5,800 remains of Native Americans housed on the various California State University campuses, as well as 692,400 Native American cultural items.

Then in the spring of 2023, the two university administrators were removed from their positions and the promise appeared to die on the vine.“We're so accustomed to that… it almost goes without saying in almost any institution that we work with,” Perry said.Adolfo Guzman-Lopez focuses on the stories of students trying to overcome academic and other challenges to stay in college — with the goal of creating a path to a better life.

 

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