… passage of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation … tribal descendants. As a Native American, I am angered … first and only California Native American elected to the state … failed miserably at returning Native American remains and artifacts …… passage of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation … tribal descendants. As a Native American, I am angered … first and only California Native American elected to the state … failed miserably at returning Native American remains and artifacts …