I've been on several UC Berkeley archeology / anthropology projects in California with native Californians and students are required to respect the native cultu

I've been on several UC Berkeley archeology / anthropology projects in California with native Californians and students are required to respect the native culture to the extreme of being required to pray to native gods and remaining outside the view of all other people while having a period. Obviously, I don't believe compliance to be 100%. Native people must be around to observe everything, their rituals performed at every work site, and any site where human remains are encountered must be left and closed again with a much more elaborate process. Far from being informed and respectful, the average UC Berkeley student today arrives, having grown up in CA, thinking native Californians are completely extinct! So, there are very different native cultures in CA to this day, and it is very unlikely that the average Californian starts with any insight into how different the peoples recorded on these cylinders may view this process. Anything that happens at UC's anthropology department happens in a cultural minefield of constant explosions of controversy. Any project at Phoebe Hearst is ethically fragile and liable to be looked back upon as a travesty in less than a decade.