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UC Berkeley discusses past, present treatment of Native American people
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At a campus event titled America’s Unfinished Work: UC’s Repatriation and Un-Naming Efforts,” the UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute discussed campus s treatment of Native American people.
UC Berkeley’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, or OLLI, discussed campus’s past treatment of California’s Native American population in an event Friday.
During the event, called “America’s Unfinished Work: UC’s Repatriation and Un-Naming Efforts,” OLLI director Susan Hoffman introduced Linda Haverty Rugg, campus associate vice chancellor for research, as the speaker.
Rugg began by acknowledging the land as belonging to the Ohlone people, as Strawberry Creek was the site of their settlement. Rugg said campus’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, or the Hearst Museum, holds ancestral remains of 9,594 Native American individuals but noted this number as a likely “sig