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"Amen! Their victimhood would disappear if it was allowed that they were NOT the first Americans. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep it"

I was at the Canyon de Chelly Navajo Reservation during the height of the Kennewick Man controversy, and let me tell you, "indignation" doesn’t even come close to describing the belligerent ranting one heard on the Native American radio network over this singular event. The phone lines were burning up with every imaginable "white man" slander you could dream of. Of course it was all a conspiracy by the white man to "steal more of our land".

The real irony in all this is that the Indians were absolutely unabashed about decrying the scientific method and anything having to do with Western scientific empiricism, and the tools they used to do that very thing were radio broadcast towers, state-of-the-art electronics, and cell phones. Go figure.