NAGPRA

Heather Ponchetti Daly is a tribal member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and an Assistant Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in the Departments of Environmental Studies and the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego. Daly received the 2023 UC San Diego-- Barbara & Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award and the UC San Diego Teaching + Learning Commons Changemaker Anti-Racist Pedagogy Fellowship. Currently, Daly is appointed to the UC NAGPRA Implementation and Oversight Committee for the California Native American Heritage Commission representing UCLA. She is involved in the Scripps Institute of Oceanography cookbook project titled San Diego Seafood, Then and Now. Daly is also serving on the Scripps Institute Center for Ocean and Human Health Community Engagement Advisory Team and is on the UCSD Muir College Provost Advisory Board. Daly’s future research engages food sovereignty as both practice and theory; specifically, she is actively designing the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Lab at UC San Diego. 

Daly received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA her doctoral dissertation "American Indian Freedom Controversy:" Political and Social Activism by Southern California Mission Indians, 1934-1958” covers the twentieth-century political activism by Southern California Mission Indians who opposed termination.

Kimberly Morales Johnson is an enrolled member of the Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians. Her family maintains tradition and continuity to their tribe by living on the tribal traditional land and knowing its precious history. Kimberly currently serves as Tribal Secretary for the tribe, and is a PhD Candidate in Native American Studies at UC Davis. After teaching elementary school for several years, in 2010, Kimberly earned her Master’s in Public Health and taught Diabetes Education with Riverside San Bernardino County Indian Health. She recently stopped working as Special Education Teacher in Pomona, California to pursue her PhD in Native American Studies at UC Davis. Her passion is to tell the story of the Tongva with, by and for the community. Kimberly enjoys traditional basket weaving, preparing native foods, and keeping California Native American culture alive.

Kathleen Marshall is an enrolled member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Kathleen lives on her reservation and has devoted her life to her family and to her tribal community. She is the Vice Chair of the tribe's Elders Council and is the NAGPRA representative for the tribe. Kathleen is the Chairwoman of the newly built Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Culture Center.  She is the first woman to chair the tribe's Gaming commission. However, her passion is the Samala Chumash Language. Kathleen is the lead language teacher and holds a language and culture credential from the state of California to teach her language and culture. 

Charmaine McDarment is an enrolled member of the Tule River Indian Tribe.  Since obtaining her Law Degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law, she has served as General Counsel, and Principle Legal Advisor for Tule River Tribal Council since 2003. She has also served as the Tule River Tribe's Director of Water Resources since 2010 and has been actively involved in the Tribe's water rights settlement efforts. Charmaine has actively engaged in major NAGPRA consultations with the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, Field Museum in Chicago, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management as well as many museums and agencies throughout California. Charmaine was appointed Secretary to the Central California Yokuts NAGPRA Coalition in 2012 and remains a vital figure to all the Federally Recognized Yokuts Tribes in the Coalition.

Justin B. Richland (PhD UCLA Anthropology, 2004; JD UC Berkeley, 1996) is Professor of Anthropology and Law (Affiliate) at University of California, Irvine. and Faculty Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. His scholarship and advocacy concern the contemporary governance of Native Nations, and the political and legal relationships between Native Nations and Non-Native governments, agencies, and institutions. He is the author of three books, Arguing with Tradition, The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court (U. Chicago, 2008),(with Sarah Deer), Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies, 3rd Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) and Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements (U. Chicago, 2021). Since 2009, he has served as Associate Justice of the Hopi Appellate Court, the highest court of the Hopi Nation. In 2016, he was named a J.S. Guggenheim Fellow.

Angela R. Riley (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) is Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and Directs UCLA's Native Nations Law and Policy Center in the School of Law. She directs the J.D./M.A. joint degree program in Law and American Indian Studies. Professor Riley's research focuses on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. Her work has been published in the country’s leading law journals. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma and her law degree from Harvard Law School. Professor Riley became the first woman and youngest Justice of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Supreme Court in 2003 and has served as Chief Justice since 2010. She previously served as Co-Chair for the United Nations - Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership Policy Board. She served as the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2015 and regularly teaches Nation Building at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has chaired the UCLA Repatriation Committee at UCLA since 2010 and served on the President’s Repatriation Policy Work Group from 2019-2021. In 2022, she was named as Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs.