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Human remains that are returned to tribes are treated reverently. Several weeks ago, the Umatilla tribe in Washington reinterred 240 remains in a massive burial accompanied by traditional ceremonies and moving words from tribal elders. "It was hard to describe," says Audie Huber, a Native American--though not an Umatilla--who has monitored the Kennewick case for several tribes. "The sense of relief was palpable...
Finally, ticklish as any NAGPRA case can be, the extreme age and importance of Kennewick Man practically guaranteed that it would be beset by legal maneuvering. Soon after the find was announced in 1996, the Umatilla tribes of Oregon and Washington claimed it. Eight anthropologists immediately sued for the right to study it, and archaeologists for the National Park Service were called in to study the skeleton and help settle the dispute. They found in favor of the Umatillas, but a federal district court disagreed, as did a circuit court, citing a lack of cultural and genetic evidence to link...
...government researchers examined the bones, but it would take almost a decade for independent scientists to get a good look at the skeleton. Although it was found in the summer of 1996, the local Umatilla Indians and four other Columbia Basin tribes almost immediately claimed it as ancestral remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, demanding that the skeleton be reburied without the desecration of scientific study. A group of researchers sued, starting a legal tug-of-war and negotiations that ended only last summer, with the scientists getting their first extensive access to the bones...
...dozen of Harvard College’s 56 Native students. They represent a variety of backgrounds and interests: Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06 is from Brooklyn, NY, the grandson of Taino and Seminole tribal members; Sophia A. Taula ’04, part of both the Umatilla and Nez Perce tribes in the Pacific northwest, spent a year living on the Umatilla Reservation; and John T. Sieg ’07, part Oklahoma Cherokee, is a member of ROTC and the Green Party...
...speak at the January launch of the commemoration at Monticello, outside Charlottesville, Va. "Still, people are making money on this, so don't leave out the Indians. It's an opportunity for us to tell our story." And to revive cultures that are slipping away. In Oregon, the Umatilla tribe, whose members told Clark they thought the explorers were "supernatural and came down from the clouds," wants funds for a language-immersion program, as only a handful of tribe members still speak their native language fluently. And the tribe hopes to publish an atlas of its Columbia River homeland with...