Oregon State University
2 subunits · Located in Oregon
Oregon State Univ. reported still having the remains of at least 63 Native Americans.
The institution has made available for return 70% of the more than 200 Native American remains that it reported to the federal government.
Where Native American remains reported by Oregon State Univ. were taken from
Timeline of Native American remains made available for return to tribes by Oregon State Univ.
How Oregon State Univ. compares to other institutions
Oregon State Univ. made Native American remains available for return to 89 tribes.
Tribe | Remains Made Available for Return To |
---|---|
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon | 58 |
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon | 55 |
Coquille Indian Tribe | 19 |
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin | 15 |
Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska | 15 |
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma | 14 |
Shawnee Tribe | 12 |
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma | 11 |
Cherokee Nation | 10 |
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon | 10 |
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians | 10 |
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma | 10 |
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma | 7 |
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma | 7 |
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska | 7 |
Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan | 4 |
Office of Hawaiian Affairs | 4 |
Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma | 4 |
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana | 3 |
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota | 3 |
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation | 3 |
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation | 3 |
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma | 3 |
Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei | 3 |
Kaw Nation, Oklahoma | 3 |
Oglala Sioux Tribe | 3 |
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska | 3 |
Osage Nation | 3 |
Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma | 3 |
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska | 3 |
Quapaw Nation | 3 |
Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma | 3 |
Afognak Native Corporation | 2 |
Afognak, Native Village of | 2 |
Akhiok, Native Village of | 2 |
Akhiok-Kaguyak, Inc. | 2 |
Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor | 2 |
Ayakulik, Inc. | 2 |
Bell Flats Natives, Inc. | 2 |
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota | 2 |
Kaguyak Village | 2 |
Karluk, Native Village of | 2 |
Koniag, Inc. | 2 |
Larsen Bay, Native Village of | 2 |
Leisnoi, Inc. | 2 |
Litnik, Inc. | 2 |
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota | 2 |
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota | 2 |
Natives of Kodiak, Inc. | 2 |
Old Harbor Native Corporation | 2 |
Ouzinkie Native Corporation | 2 |
Ouzinkie, Native Village of | 2 |
Port Lions, Native Village of | 2 |
Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota | 2 |
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota | 2 |
Samish Indian Nation | 2 |
Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska | 2 |
Shuyak, Inc. | 2 |
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota | 2 |
Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak | 2 |
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community | 2 |
Uganik Natives, Inc. | 2 |
Uyak, Inc. | 2 |
Burns Paiute Tribe | 1 |
Calista Corporation | 1 |
Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma | 1 |
Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes | 1 |
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation | 1 |
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon | 1 |
Cowlitz Indian Tribe | 1 |
Doyon, Ltd. | 1 |
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin | 1 |
Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas | 1 |
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma | 1 |
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma | 1 |
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe | 1 |
Nisqually Indian Tribe | 1 |
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana | 1 |
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation | 1 |
Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska | 1 |
Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma | 1 |
Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa | 1 |
Snoqualmie Indian Tribe | 1 |
Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation | 1 |
Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians of Washington | 1 |
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota | 1 |
Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation | 1 |
Wanapum Band | 1 |
Washoe Tribe of Nevada & California | 1 |
Oregon State Univ. reported Native American remains from two sub-institutions.
Sub-institution | Remains Not Made Available for Return | Remains Made Available for Return | % of Remains Made Available for Return |
---|---|---|---|
Oregon State Univ., Dept. of Anthropology | 59 | 89 | 60% |
Oregon State Univ., Horner Collection | 4 | 58 | 94% |
Oregon State Univ. reported making 98% of more than 400 associated funerary objects available for return to tribes.
Know how an institution is handling repatriation? Have a personal story to share? We'd like to hear from you.
Watch an informational webinar with our reporters.
This tool presents a dataset maintained by the National Park Service containing all the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects that institutions have reported to the federal government under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The dataset includes information about the state and county where remains and objects were taken from, which institutions hold them and whether they have been made available for return to tribes.
The data is self-reported by institutions. The amount of unrepatriated Native American remains reported by institutions is a minimum estimate of individuals and institutions frequently adjust these numbers when they reinventory groups of remains. Some institutions that are subject to NAGPRA have also entirely failed to report the remains in their possession. As a result, the numbers provided are best taken as estimates. The actual number and geographic scope of what’s held by publicly funded institutions is larger than what is presently documented.
ProPublica supplemented this dataset with information about cultural affiliation and disposition to specific tribes by systematically parsing the text of Notices of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register. An additional dataset from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Tribal Directory Assessment Tool, was used for the section on remains not made available for return from counties that each tribe has indicated interest in to the federal government.
Institution location and tribal headquarters location information was provided by National NAGPRA. The location of some groups that are not federally recognized was provided through research by ProPublica.
Institutions that are part of a larger entity are grouped. (For example, the Mesa Verde National Park is part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.)
Institutions that have not submitted information to the federal government are not listed. The Smithsonian Institution is not listed because its repatriation process falls under the National Museum of the American Indian Act and it is not required to publicly report its holdings with the same detail as institutions subject to NAGPRA.
If you work for an institution and would like to provide comment on your institution’s repatriation efforts, please email [email protected]. If you think the data is incorrect or have a data request, please get in touch. We are aware of some issues with the accuracy of location information and tribes mistakenly being identified for disposition of Native American remains in published notices.
If you want to share something else with ProPublica, we’d like to hear from you.
If you have questions about implementing or complying with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, get in touch with National NAGPRA or the NAGPRA Community of Practice.
We use the word “tribes” to refer to all groups that institutions made Native American remains available to under NAGPRA. This includes tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities, Native Alaskan villages, Native Hawaiian organizations and non-federally recognized groups.
Data sources from Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National NAGPRA Program, the Federal Register, Department of Housing and Development, Tribal Directory Assessment Tool