Highway Builders at Caltrans to Return Ancient Native Artifacts Found
Published Date: 4/30/2025
Notice
Summary
Caltrans has finished checking and listing certain Native American items connected to tribes and Native Hawaiian groups. This means these items are officially recognized and ready to be returned to their rightful communities. If you’re part of these tribes or groups, keep an eye out for how and when these objects will be handed back—no money changes hands, just respect and care.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Inventory Completed; Cultural Affiliation Found
If you are a member of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization named in this notice, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and determined a cultural affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
Items Identified for Repatriation Without Payment
If you are a member of the affiliated tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, the inventoryed objects are officially recognized as associated funerary objects and are ready to be returned to their communities; the notice states that no money will change hands as part of the return.
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