Army Corps to Repatriate More Than 24,000 Burial Artifacts From Lake Sonoma Excavations to Pomo Tribal Nations
November 26, 2025
November 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, California, has announced its intent to transfer a vast collection of cultural materials unearthed during construction of the Warm Springs Dam in Sonoma County, marking one of the largest repatriation efforts initiated under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Archaeological investigations tied to the dam and Lake Sonoma reservoir began in the late 1960s and accelerated across the 197 . . .
