University California Berkeley Leads in Grave Robbing of Native Americans

The University of California Berkeley leads the Nation in the Grave Robbing of Native Americans. Nationwide, the Long History of Grave Robbing by Individuals and Museums in the United States is Revealed in NAGPRA Notices.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The University of California Berkeley has the largest number of unreturned human remains of Native Americans, in violation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Further, recent notices in the Federal Register reveal that grave robbing resulted in large numbers of Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa, Miwok, Pueblo, Shawnee, Arapaho, Siletz, and others being harbored for decades by museums across the United States.

UC Berkeley has Native remains from every county in Arizona and Utah where the Navajo Nation is located. The university has made only 1 percent available for return, in violation of the NAGPRA law. The data is revealed in a new database at ProPublica.

Today, Censored News reviews 33 NAGPRA notices in the U.S. Federal Register which reveal a pattern of grave robbing, both by individuals and by archaeologists in the name of science, resulting in museums harboring thousands of Native American ancestors' remains.

Read the full article, and the series, at Censored News:

University of California Berkeley Leads in Native Grave Robbing
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/university-of-california-berkeley-leads.html

Museums Harbor Thousands of Apache Remains: Interview with San Carlos Councilman concerning Yale's Skull and Bones Society, and Geronimo.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/museums-harboring-thousands-of-apache.html

Phoenix: Heard Museum Harboring O'otham and O'odham Remains
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/phoenix-heard-museum-harbored-ootham.html

Department of Defense Harbors Native Remains, including Four Native Ancestors at Fallon Navy Bombing Range in Nevada
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/department-of-defense-harbors-thousands.html
://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/phoenix-heard-museum-harbored-ootham.html

Smithsonian without Ethics or Morality
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/smithsonian-without-ethics-or-morality.html

The Smithsonian is Missing
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-smithsonian-is-missing-racist-dark.html

New Database Reveals where Native Ancestors are Being Held
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-database-reveals-where-native.html

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