[Renfield]

There's no way to prove that the remains are culturally connnected to any modern tribes. This business of returning archaic-period Indian remains to modern tribes is PC run amuck. It's like returning remains of some Proto-Celt to modern Germans or Poles.

[RightWhale]

It's like returning remains of some Proto-Celt to modern Germans or Poles.

Right, it would be like that.

[Bernard Marx]

This business of returning archaic-period Indian remains to modern tribes is PC run amuck.

Clearly. But these tribes want to keep their perks and New Age charisma as "native Americans." If they allow study of old bones someone might prove that Siberian Asians weren't here first. Thanks to Indian Casinos they also have potent political muscle -- did you follow their huge cash contributions in the CA governor's race?