The "Bee" articles ignore the plight of the Indians during the 'Gold Rush' period.
Some 300,000 native Americans are estimated to have been living in California just prior to the Gold Rush. Most were killed and starved out, leaving only about 20,000 by the 1890s.

The remaining tribes are trying to get bones of their ancestors back from the University of California (Berkeley), which has the remains of 12,000 stored in cabinets under the Hearst Gymnasium swimming pool.
Under the provisions of NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), the University Hearst Museum is required to identify the tribal origins of its bones and artifacts (some 400,000) and return them to federally recognized tribes that request them.

Native Americans staged protests in 2007 on the campus, demanding action on return, and recognition of the Gold Rush holocaust. The University has been unconscionably unresponsive. So far, bones of only about 260 individuals have been returned.

Many articles, this one today in "The Santa Fe New Mexican."
Tribes vs Berkeley