000 people self-identify as Diné today

and finding one's place in the world

their relationship to nature and healing

But not anymore

Amik (Beaver)

Grave Matters: The Controversy Over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past Pomo 000 people self-identify as DinéHow do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them? Whether by curious Boy Scouts and "backyard archaeologists" or competitive collectors and knowledge hungry anthropologists, the excavation of Native remains is a practice fraught with injustice and simmering resentments. Grave Matters is the history of the treatment of Native remains in California and the story of the complicated relationship between