The Troubled History of Indigenous Remains in Academia
UC Berkeley estimates that it still holds the remains of 9,000 Indigenous people in the campus’ Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

The remains of indigenous peoples have a long and painful history in academia. Scientists and institutions have amassed large collections of indigenous bones and artifacts for over a century, often obtained unethically and without consent.
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