Posted on 07/16/2004 3:40:56 PM PDT by Willie Green
The convoluted legal fight for Kennewick Man's bones -- the remains found along the Columbia River almost eight years ago that make up one of the oldest, most complete skeletons found in North America -- is likely over.
Four Northwest tribes seeking to bury the 9,300-year-old bones indicate they will not take their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court after losing in lower federal courts to scientists who want to study the remains. The bones now await a formal study plan by the scientists.
The U.S. Justice Department, which early on had sided with the tribes, declined Thursday to say whether it would file its own appeal to the nation's highest court by a Monday deadline. But Rob Roy Smith, a Seattle attorney representing the Colville Tribes, said he assumes the federal agency also won't continue with the case.
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ping
This is great win for science. The tribes did not want a study of Kennewick man because he has Caucasiod features which would challenge their tradition that they were the first true native Americans.
Its about time!
This was a ridiculous debate. I'm glad it's over.
For sure!
Exactly. The real tragedy is how Bruce Babbit had the Corp of
Engineers destroy the site where the remains were found.
LOL!!!
Yeah, perhaps I should've posted it in "Breaking News"!!!
I remember reading about that. What a loss!!
"PORTLAND, ORE. -- In a stunning defeat to both scientists and five tribes in the Pacific Northwest, a federal judge has ordered the heavily disputed remains of Kennewick Man be repatriated to his true and rightful descendant: award-winning English actor Patrick Stewart."
Ping!!! The similarity between Kennewick man and a European man is the reason the tribes were so adamant about preventing the research from being done. The Kennewick man might rewrite the history of the migration to North America destroying the claims and myths of native Americans.
"This is great win for science. The tribes did not want a study of Kennewick man because he has Caucasiod features which would challenge their tradition that they were the first true native Americans."
And what would happen to the politically correct farce that gets thrust on students from elementary school to college? You know, the one that goes like this: The Americas were a pristine, Eden-like paradise and the indigenous peoples lived in harmony with nature and one-another....until the "evil" Europeans came and brought war and disease with them.
Too bad the Clinton Administration in the name of political correctnes over science decided to bulldoze the site and buried it under several tons of dirt.
I agree, who cares, he is dead anyway
You do not need Kennewick man to debunk that. There was a NOVA special about fires in the West and the commentators mentioned the natives made extensive use of fire, slash and burn farming, to dramatically alter the ecology of the US. By the time the Euros arrived North America was a much different place because of the natives.
FReegards,
FMCDH(BITS)
"Bruce Babbit had the Corp of
Engineers destroy the site where the remains were found."
If Babbit had lived in Afghanistan he would've approved of the destruction of the giant Buddhas. Can't have any pesky truth messing up our revisionist history.
Yup. Some think the Great Plains was forested until the Indians burned it so many times chasing out the animals.
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