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Thread ID: 18655 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-06-14
2005-06-14 00:39 | User Profile
Kennewick Man Update: One more reason to hate McCain!
Kennewick Man scientists lobby against bill Legislation would let American Indian tribes claim ancient remains This is a plastic casting of the skull from the bones known as Kennewick Man, discovered in 1996 and focus of a bitter nine-year fight. The Associated Press Updated: 2:56 p.m. ET April 8, 2005
WASHINGTON - Scientists 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.
advertisement Click Here Scientists fear the bill, if enacted, could end up overturning a federal appeals court ruling that allows them to study the 9,300-year-old bones.
The skeleton was discovered in 1996 along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Wash., and has been the focus of a bitter nine-year fight.
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.
"What they are trying to do is to change the statute so that it comes up with the absurd result that tribes can now claim skeletons to which they have no cultural connection," said Alan Schneider, a Portland, Ore.-based attorney for the scientists.
It is far from certain what tribe, if any, Kennewick Man would be assigned to, Schneider said: "He may not even be Indian at all."
Rob Roy Smith, an attorney for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington state, said the bill would apply to future archaeological finds, and would strengthen the case of tribes across the country that want to claim and bury ancient remains.
"This is a congressional effort to right a wrong ... that was identified through the Kennewick Man case," Smith said, but it would not affect the case itself. The disputed bones are being stored at the Burke Museum in Seattle.
Four Northwest tribes ââ¬â the Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Colville ââ¬â 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.
[url]http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7432967/[/url]
Kennewick Man: prehistoric pioneer in the Pacific Northwest [url]http://www.newnation.org/NNN-kennewick-man.html[/url]
2005-06-25 03:20 | User Profile
An update on Kennewick Man: [url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5359[/url]
2005-06-26 00:52 | User Profile
Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man: How a simple "or was" injects aboriginal religion into science Adding "or was" places the material remains of the prehistory of all the unknown peoples of the American past under the exclusive domain of Indian tribes based simply on the geographic location of their present-day lands. Public policy would automatically give tribes the authority to control all evidence that may contradict their particular religious beliefs and give tribes complete veto power over scientific research on those remains. - (Svejk) - (Kennewick Man news)
[url]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002346169_kennewick24.html[/url]
Preparations under way for Kennewick Man study
The study could be canceled by a court order or if the wording of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act changes in Congress. - (Svejk) -
[url]http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_062105WABkennewickmanLJ.2f5809c6.html[/url]
Kennewick Man news [url]http://www.newnation.org/NNN-kennewick-man.html[/url]
2005-06-28 04:49 | User Profile
This sort of thing irritates me. I can stand the Indians opposition to grave robbing, but it seems they consider themselves the owners of all unclaimed skeletons west of the Mississippi. The chance Kennewick Man may upset the preconceived notions of some Indians, then attempt to prohibit scientists from studying the skeleton sets a very dangerous precedent for scientific inquiry.
2005-06-28 05:11 | User Profile
They are terrified that they won't be able to claim victimization. Just think original Caucasoid race wiped out by migration of Asians through the Berring Straights into North America. There was a group of aboriginal Japanese that lived in the northern part of Japan that had white skin and blue eyes. This is possibly Kenniwick Man's origins.
This link has several different groups of aboriginal whites in various parts of the world including the Annui- Japanese aboriginals. [url="http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/hwr6a.htm"]http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/hwr6a.htm[/url]
2005-06-29 06:01 | User Profile
BlueBonnet,
I now wonder if aboriginal Caucasoid Japanese came from America after crossing over from Europe. I have read the Caucasoid skeletons have been found in other part of East Asia. The aboriginal American Caucasoids may point to their origins.
2005-06-29 06:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]BlueBonnet,
I now wonder if aboriginal Caucasoid Japanese came from America after crossing over from Europe. I have read the Caucasoid skeletons have been found in other part of East Asia. The aboriginal American Caucasoids may point to their origins.[/QUOTE] That's a good point. I figured since they have found Caucasians in ancient China and the theory of the the land bridge migration that this is how ancient caucasoids would have made it here. But there is nothing to say it couldn't have gone the other way. In fact now that I think about it I remember seeing a National Geographic(?? maybe NOVA) about how the particular type of tools and the way they were made in certain areas of the US , one being around where Kenniwick man was found, were similar to ancient Germanic tools.
2005-07-01 04:42 | User Profile
BlueBonnet,
Yes it seems llikely the Clovis spear people came from France.
Clovis spear people were Europeans! [url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15716&highlight=clovis[/url]
First Americans May Have Crossed Atlantic 50,000 Years Ago [url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15711&highlight=clovis[/url]
Court: Scientists Can Study Kennewick Man [url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12231&highlight=clovis[/url]
2005-07-03 03:35 | User Profile
More Kennewick Man stuff: [url]http://www.runestone.org/kmfile.html[/url]
WHO WERE THE SI-TE-CAH? [url]http://www.runestone.org/kmlc.html[/url]
2005-07-03 06:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]More Kennewick Man stuff: [url="http://www.runestone.org/kmfile.html"]http://www.runestone.org/kmfile.html[/url]
WHO WERE THE SI-TE-CAH? [url="http://www.runestone.org/kmlc.html"]http://www.runestone.org/kmlc.html[/url][/QUOTE] Very interesting story about the Si Te Cah. thanks.