Sonoma State University Plans Repatriation of 207 Burial-Linked Artifacts to Kashia Pomo
November 26, 2025
November 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, has announced its intent to repatriate more than two hundred cultural items identified as unassociated funerary objects. The objects, totaling 207, were excavated from several sites in Sonoma County between the late 1970s and 1989 and are linked to Native burial contexts despite the absence of associated human remains. The university determined through consultation and review that the items meet the legal definitio . . .
