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Stored for decades at UC Berkeley, 335 items — 34 of them sacred objects — now are back in Hawaii after a collaboration between Native Hawaiians and the campus. Read more about Largest repatriation in Hawaiian history completed with cultural items long held at UC Berkeley

It would be the largest repatriation by far at an institution that holds more than 9,000 ancestral remains and has lagged behind in returning its holdings under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.Read more about UC Berkeley Takes Significant Step to Repatriate 4,400 Native American Human Remains

The studying and exhibiting of human remains and sacred objects taken from Native American graves and sites have been a source of bitter relations between many cultural institutions and Indigenous tribes. After facing criticism, the University of California, Berkeley is working to...Read more about University of California, Berkeley repatriates cultural artifacts to Indigenous tribe

The remains of approximately 200 Lenape ancestors and associated funerary objects that had been held by universities and institutions across the country were reinterred to final rest on their homelands near Philadelphia on April 11, after being returned to the five Lenape tribes.Read more about Lenape Ancestors and Ceremonial Objects Finally Returned

The Luiseño Basket, representing the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians is repatriated as an object of cultural patrimonyRead more about The Luiseño Basket, representing the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ted Hernandez, tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe, said bringing home the remains of ancestors from the University of California, Berkeley’s ...Read more about After 70 Years, UC Berkeley Museum Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe

Remains of at least 20 members believed to have been killed in the Indian Island Massacre of 1860 will be returned by UCBRead more about ‘They are going to be at peace’: California university returns remains of massacred Wiyot Tribe members

Today, the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it and UC Berkeley have worked to repatriate the remains of 20 people who were discovered during the construction of the jetties in the 1950s.Read more about Corps of Engineers, U.C. Berkeley Return Remains of Wiyot People Presumed Killed in the Indian Island Massacre