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How a $20 million bet on ‘rematriation’ backfired spectacularly—and exposed the perils of philanthropy’s feel-good frontier

By Staff Reporter October 29, 2025 — In the fog-shrouded precincts of Oakland, where the ghosts of California’s missions still murmur beneath the freeways, a quiet revolution was supposed to be underway. Sacred land, long […]