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The complicated legacy of Alfred Kroeber will no longer be honored on a campus building after UC Berkeley denamed Kroeber Hall, a decision that has drawn both praise and criticism.

Un-naming Kroeber Hall is an opportunity to address inactions that have damaged the relationship of our department and campus with Native people in California and beyond.

Violence against Indigenous peoples of what is today California should not be discounted or minimized by campus faculty to preserve the fictional benevolence of their disciplines.

Sunday’s panel was about narratives of incarceration, yet the only one onstage who had personal experience with incarceration outside of volunteering was Alyssa Tamboura, the daughter of a previously incarcerated man.

Maybe once the university fully reconciles its chilling narrative, the souls of the indigenous people, victims of the atomic bomb and all others made to suffer in university’s history will finally lay to rest.