[vannrox]

Man...this is just so tiring.

[LibertyThug]

"We're not against science, and we're not against technology," said Armand Minthorn, spokesman for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation. "But technology should not dictate what is done or is not done with these remains."

In other words, the tribes don't want science/technology to discover the true origins of the remains...Hmmm!

[Nowhere Man]

In 1990, Congress defined "Native American" as someone "indigenous to the United States."

Hmmm, I was born in Pittsburgh in 1966 so next time I fill out a form, I'll put myself down as "Native American" even though I don't live in a teepee and drive a horse to work. (with apologies to Andrew Dice Clay who inspired my comment) B-) The term "Native American" drives me up the wall as it is defined by the PC crowd unless you mean it as all people born here on US soil.

Seriously, we got to check things out and find out things about the past and this is the only way to do it. We've all heard tales of Vikings, Irish Monks, Knights Templars, Phonecians, Atlanteans, and so on running around the Americas from 2000 BC to 1430 AD. Even though Kennewick Man predates the earliest by about 6000+ years or so, I think it is conceivable that "Whitey" could have been running around the Americans in prehistoric times. For some reason American Indians want to suppress that because it doesn't jive with the history of conventional wisdom. There could be and probably have been significant events that occured prior to written history that we should try to uncover. The American Indians who opposed the scientists who want to run tests are not much better than the revisionists who deny the Holocaust because it doesn't fit with their views. If "Whitey" was here the same time as them or even before, so what, I mean I'm hear not too although my ancestors made it here much later from the 1870 to 1910 era. What counts is we live here now. I know myself, I'm a mixture of German, Swedish, Russian, Russian Jew, and Serbian, but since my parents, grandparents and myself were born here on US soil, I'm just as much of a "Native American."

[Vigilantcitizen]

This is your thing.

[blam]

European DNA Found In 7-8,000 Year Old Skeleton In Florida (Windover)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The case centers on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, aimed at returning Indian remains and discourage illegal trafficking in bones taken from burial sites.

Good motives. Bad results.

I have to admit being a bit torn at times. On one hand I am comfortable with and support the idea of the bones of my probable ancestors being studied. Mainly because there is so much left to learn and always will be.

On the other hand, I am not comfortable with the idea of those same bones being sold to a collector or to some nitwit who thinks he’s a witch to be ground up for devil powder.

[RightWhale]

this is just so tiring

It's a battle to the death. At stake are the careers of hundreds of philosophers who have developed a movie of oneness with nature in America, a oneness that goes back 30,000 years. If it turns out to go back only 3,000 years, slipped decimal--sorry, that will leave Hindu Gita as still the oldest and a pile of careers on the cutting room floor.

[patriciaruth]

The Interior Department of Bill Clinton established the Native American religion as the recognized religion of the United States government.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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