UC Berkeley returns thousands of artifacts to Native American tribes RestoringAmerica
“This is part of restorative justice across the country. If we want to rebuild those relationships, repatriation is the first step. There can’t be healing or rebuilding trust without repatriation," said Agarwal, who is also the chairwoman of UC Berkeley's NAGPRA committee.
A portion of the UC Berkeley collection, currently housed at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, belongs to the Wiyot Tribe, whose ancestral lands included the modern-day Humboldt Bay area in northern California. The Hearst Museum is closed to the public while staff"prioritize repatriation." “It wasn’t right for past generations to dig up [the Wiyot Tribe] remains and take them to Berkeley or anywhere else. But people can learn from their mistakes and the new generation has been able to finally see why this was wrong," Wiyot Tribe Chairman Ted Hernandez told CNN."Those people who think this is not a big deal or doesn’t matter: Imagine someone goes to your cemetery, digs up your ancestors, packs them in boxes and puts them on a shelf.
Hernandez told the news outlet that UC Berkeley has returned over 20 different artifacts and remains to the Wiyot Tribe that were once held in its collection. “When we bought our ancestors back, we held a ceremony for them, and that’s an important part of our healing process. As Wiyoti people, we are known as the world-people, which is bringing balance into the world,” the tribe chairman said.
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