University of California, San Diego
The Univ. of California, San Diego has made available for return 100% of the 486 Native American remains that it reported to the federal government.
Where Native American remains reported by the Univ. of California, San Diego were taken from
Timeline of Native American remains made available for return to tribes by the Univ. of California, San Diego
How the Univ. of California, San Diego compares to other institutions
The Univ. of California, San Diego made Native American remains available for return to 27 tribes.
| Tribe | Remains Made Available for Return To |
|---|---|
| Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas | 478 |
| Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma | 478 |
| Chickasaw Nation | 478 |
| Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma | 478 |
| Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana | 478 |
| Jena Band of Choctaw Indians | 478 |
| Muscogee (Creek) Nation | 478 |
| Seminole Tribe of Florida | 478 |
| The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma | 478 |
| Thlopthlocco Tribal Town | 478 |
| Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, California | 8 |
| Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California | 8 |
| Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California | 8 |
| Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, California | 8 |
| Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, California | 8 |
| Jamul Indian Village of California | 8 |
| La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian Reservation, California | 8 |
| Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, California | 8 |
| Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California | 8 |
| San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California | 8 |
| Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation | 8 |
| La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, California | 1 |
| Pala Band of Mission Indians | 1 |
| Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma and Yuima Reservation, California | 1 |
| Pechanga Band of Indians | 1 |
| Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians | 1 |
| Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, California | 1 |
The Univ. of California, San Diego reported making 100% of 94 associated funerary objects available for return to tribes.
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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.
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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