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Tribal Relations

Office of Tribal Relations

The Office of Tribal Relations is dedicated to fostering and maintaining healthy relationships with Native Communities and creating a university environment that promotes the well-being and success of Native American students.

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Land Acknowledgement

The Fresno State campus sits in the midst of the San Joaquin Valley, a valley rich in the traditions and representation of Native American peoples and cultures. We are grateful to be in the traditional homelands of the Yokuts and Mono peoples, whose diverse tribal communities share stewardship over this land.
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NAGPRA

Fresno State is committed to ensuring respectful, ethical, and timely repatriation of Ancestors and cultural items, including funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony, to Native American lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations subject to NAGPRA and California NAGPRA (CalNAGPRA) by focusing the university's resources on repatriation of items already cared for at the university.Learn More


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