California is pressing universities to repatriate thousands of Native American remains and artifacts. How two campuses are succeeding.

Successive state audits of the University of California and the California State University found both systems have failed to comply with state and federal laws mandating the return of Native ancestral remains and cultural artifacts. Only UCLA and Cal State Long Beach have returned a majority of their collections back to local tribes.

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