Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his misgivings, Brain is thankful for his connection with the discovery. "I wouldn't trade the experience for anything," he says quickly. "It's the sort of archeological find that comes along once a generation." He adds as an afterthought. "Perhaps even once a century or once a country...
...collection has allowed archeologists to study how the Tunica Indians survived--and even profited from--their contact with the French, a good fortune which Brain says was shared by few other tribes. Before the discovery, researchers did not even know the exact location of the Tunica tribe. Now they have a wealth of information about the aboriginal Indians, including clues showing that the Tunica were trade intermediaries between the French and other Indian tribes...
...same time Charrier was trying to sell his goods, the Peabody Museum's Lower Mississippi Survey Group began a study of the southern part of the Mississippi River Valley. Alerted to Charrier's find by a local archeologist. Brain traveled to Louisiana to examine the collection that describes the scene at Charrier's home in a book he wrote about the artifacts...
...make matters worse, the land turned out to be jointly owned by six heirs that had divided into two quarreling camps. The heirs could barely agree to let Brain survey their land, let alone decide what to do with the Tunica collection...
...moving forces behind the states involvement in the case is Frederick G. Benton, a member of the antiquities commission who has represented the state in court free of charge. "Benton has always been there to always make the law come down as hard as possible on Charrier." Brain observes Benton has blocked settlement with Charrier, preferring instead to press his case in the courts...