%0 Journal Article
%A Weiss, Elizabeth Weiss
%D 2024
%J Journal of Controversial Ideas

%@ 2694-5991

%V 4
%N 2
%P 17

%T The Study of California’s Past is Dead and Reburied
%M doi:10.35995/jci04020017
%U https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/4/2/283
%X Repatriation laws, which aim to return human remains and artifacts from past peoples to modern Native American tribes, have recently changed at both the federal and state levels. California has two large public university systems where skeletal collections have been used for both research and teaching. In this paper, I investigate the current availability of human remains collections – both for Native American remains and non-Native American remains – for research in the California State University and the University of California systems. From the responses that I have received and a search of the anthropological literature, it appears that the repatriation process has caused the cessation of human remains research at California’s public universities.