I used to not care about this. Now I am getting curious as to just what it is people are trying to hide.
Amen, Brother Ben! Me, like thee, dost think they protest too much.
It's just possible that Kennewick Man might provide evidence that people of a different racial background were here in America before the Indians crossed the Bering Straits.
I don't know if there are any real foundations for such speculations, but that may be what is feared.
It's also possible that it's just a religious matter. Many Indians believe that it's wrong to dig up their dead ancestors and display them in museums, and you can't really blame them for that. But if physical anthropologists really think this skeleton is different, then it would be too bad not to investigate it more closely.
"I used to not care about this. Now I am getting curious as to just what it is people are trying to hide"
It's quite simple, really. Northwest American Indians are trying to hide the fact that when they came to the continent it was already populated by a caucasian tribe from whom they took the land, and who they wiped out.
IOW, they are the same as the European explorers and colonists who returned the favor centuries later.
What they are trying to hide is the skeleton is caucasion.