'Oppressed Minority' status is something precious enough not to want to lose, whatever the cost.
My,my, I just can't imagine what these "Native Americans"[sic!] find so reverential* about this 9+k year old mummy discovered in the sands of in-land Washington state.
*After all he must be hurried off to his official (a.k.a. sacred) grave at once, without any and/or the slightest further ado.
What a pandering Dumb-A$$!!
Sen. Campbell just wants to see the remains buried before they can vote.
This is important for the people of our Nation to know/prove/understand.
Since the Indians have no proof of relationship and no proof that they were native to the land I don't think they should be able to claim anything.
If we do this some lawyer will use it to do something else equally unbearable.
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Guess they are afraid to see if "Whitey" was running around here at the same time or even before the American Indians. I know there is a small group of people from Caucasian stock in Japan called the Anu, if the Kennewick Man is White, maybe he could have come from them. Or perhaps there were ancients or an ancient civilization prior to us who came to the New World. There are many possibilities.
This nonsensical legislation isn't going anywhere. Nice try by the "august body", keepers of truth and knowledge.
HIDEOUS.
CRAZY.
Where can we make a fuss to?
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well, if kennewick man was japanese, and if the other first americans were australian aborigines (as other threads have said), i guess we should split the country in 2 and give half to the japanese and half to the australians.
the whites and native americans will all have to go back to wherever.
Hey if you don't like a court ruling, pass legislation. I don't think it will pass.
for later consumption
Kennewick Man Scientists Protest BillScientists hoping to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man are protesting legislation they say could block their efforts. They say a two-word amendment to a bill on American Indians would allow federally recognized tribes to claim ancient remains even if they cannot prove a link to a current tribe... The scientists successfully opposed a similar bill in the last Congress sponsored by then-Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Campbell retired in January, but the bill has been revived in this Congress by the panel's new chairman, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz... Four Northwest tribes — the Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Colville — had claimed they were entitled to the ancient bones under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The tribes wanted the bones reburied without any scientific studies.
by Matthew Daly
Associated Press Writer
Fri, Apr 08, 2005
reprised from Another Bone Of Contention Over Kennewick Man (John McCain)
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