[Walkingfeather]

Here is the issue the article does not mention. Kennewick man was not native american genetically. White most likely, possibly japanese. OOpsie big problem if you are native american that claim that you were basically born out of the land... ( I am choctaw) all the sudden there is another older group of inhabitants in the land... then the question comes....

If we came second, can we be called “Native americans” ?

And if we survived and drove the real native americans off the land that really screws up our whole iron eyes coty ( Who was Sicilian not indian btw) victim image.

So tribes are trying to bury these guys as fast as possible.

[Coyoteman]

Here is the issue the article does not mention. Kennewick man was not native american genetically. White most likely, possibly japanese.

Last I heard the DNA had not been sequenced (but look at that gorgeous unworn lower 3rd molar!).

The "European" was Chatters' initial estimate based on the cranial shape. Further study showed that was not the case.

But if by Japanese you mean "Ainu" then that would make a lot of sense.

But I am still waiting for the DNA study. That should tell us a lot!

[Myrddin]

My wife is 1/4 Cherokee. Her paternal grandmother was named Mary Jane Pheasant. She was orphaned in the Trail of Tears. We live in Idaho next to the Shoshone/Bannock reservation. My wife has just returned to college to finish her degree. She's considering taking a couple semesters of Shoshone language as a minor to her communications degree. There's plenty of locals available to strike up a conversation. My wife has no interest in any "leverage" that her heritage might offer.