{"id":276274,"date":"2026-04-20T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:37:14","slug":"indigenous-remains-found-at-uc-berkeley-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276274\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous remains found at UC Berkeley construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/od4ao5meconfdsbi.jpg\" alt=\"ICYMI: Berkeley returns Ohlone site to indigenous trust\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">BERKELEY, Calif. &#8211; Skeletal remains discovered Wednesday at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/education\/uc-schools\/uc-berkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a> construction site belong to an Indigenous person, university officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The remains were found at an undisclosed campus-owned construction site, according to the university\u2019s Strategic Communications team.<\/p>\n<p> Coroner investigation  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Following the discovery, the Alameda County Coroner\u2019s Office conducted an investigation to determine the origin of the remains.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;The Alameda County Coroner&#8217;s Office determined the remains were likely historical Native American remains, and not connected to any crime,&#8221; the university said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The university\u2019s Governmental and Community Relations office, which manages issues regarding Indigenous remains, is now coordinating with the California Native American Heritage Commission to ensure respectful and appropriate next steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: UC Berkeley Strategic Communications<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/education\/uc-schools\/uc-berkeley\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, Calif. &#8211; Skeletal remains discovered Wednesday at a University of California, Berkeley construction site belong to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15,100,143,145,144,149,28260],"class_list":["post-276274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-education","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-uc-berkeley","tag-uc-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}