Announcements
- 03/25/2024 - Draft Contact List Regulations – Summary of Comments
- 03/12/2024 - Public Special Meeting Notice and Agenda – March 22, 2024
- 03/11/2024 - Job Announcement: Staff Services Manager I Final Filing Date: 3/22/24
- 03/01/2024 - Governor Newsom appoints NAHC Commissioner Bennae Calac
- 02/28/2024 - Job Announcement: Staff Services Manager I Final Filing Date: 3/22/24
- 02/22/2024 - Robert M. Wood – Obituary
- 02/07/2024 - NAHC Commission Meeting Rescheduled – May 3, 2024
- 01/29/2024 - Proposed Draft Contact List Regulations – Comment Period Extended to March 1, 2024
- 01/16/2024 - Reminder: NAHC Seeks Nominations to the CSU NAGPRA Systemwide and Campus Implementation and Oversight Committees
- 01/09/2024 - Public Meeting Notice and Agenda – January 19, 2024
- 12/19/2023 - NAHC Seeks Nominations to the CSU NAGPRA Systemwide and Campus Implementation and Oversight Committees
- 12/07/2023 - Governor Newsom appoints NAHC Deputy Executive Secretary
Welcome
The California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC or Commission), created in statute in 1976 (Chapter 1332, Statutes of 1976), is a nine-member body whose members are appointed by the Governor. The NAHC identifies, catalogs, and protects Native American cultural resources -- ancient places of special religious or social significance to Native Americans and known ancient graves and cemeteries of Native Americans on private and public lands in California. The NAHC is also charged with ensuring California Native American tribes’ accessibility to ancient Native American cultural resources on public lands, overseeing the treatment and disposition of inadvertently discovered Native American human remains and burial items, and administering the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (CalNAGPRA), among many other powers and duties.