[Publius6961]

"Getting harder and harder to tell who are true "Native Americans". IE: We got here first so we're special."

That part doesn't bother me at all. They can think themselves as special as the want, no problem.

I do have a problem with the ignorant savages who couldn't even invent the wheel or written language, deciding that they are entitled to dictate the direction and means of science forever, based on their quaint superstitions and exaggerated sense of worth.

[ZULU]

I don't think its fair to refer to these people as "ignorant savages". Nor are ALL tribes opposed to anthropolical research on human remains.

The restrictions on studying Indian remains were actually rooted in repugnant practises in the recent past involving nothing short of grave robbing or even worse - desecrating American Indian remains as soon as they died.

But trying to use that same argument with respect to someone who died several thousand years ago is foolish and typically politically correct.