Harvard, Department of the Interior, Museum of Natural History… Across the United States, some of the biggest public institutions continue to refuse to repatriate human remains and cultural items belonging to Indigenous communities.
More than 35 years after Congress passed a law requiring repatriation, US museums, universities and federal agencies still hold roughly half of the approximately 210,000 Indigenous human remains in their collections, according to a ProPublica investigation published in 2025.
TRT World traveled to California to interview members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, who have for years demanded that UC Berkeley repatriate the remains of their ancestors so they can bury them with dignity in their homeland.
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