[AuntB]

It would also shoot down their theory that they are entitled to all the fish, all the timber, etc. I'm of native descent, but this would make me smile. :<)

[Grampa Dave]

See my reply to Ernest above re tying this finding in with the findings of the hushed up Kennewick Man.

Here is a little excerpt from one of the paragraphs I highlighte:

A fragment of the fifth left metacarpal analyzed by AMS has an isotopically-corrected age of 8410 +/- 60 B.P. (UCR 3476) (ca 7300 to 7600 B.C.). Amino acids and stable isotopes indicate heavy dependence on anadromous fish.

In other words this guy was dependent on the migrating salmonoids for his food a few thousand years before the Indians showed up on in this area.