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...tribal artifacts, many of which are gathering dust in museum basements. "We believe you should not disturb the dead," says Sioux Indian Maria Pearson of Marne, Iowa, a leader of her tribe's efforts to reclaim bones. To date, Native Americans have had only limited success. In 1981 Yurok Indians in California persuaded the state to return seven ancestral skeletons, which were then reburied. Iowa and Minnesota have passed laws requiring that archaeologists consult with Native Americans before bones are removed from burial sites...
...meadow near Eureka, Calif., on the state's rocky northern coast, 50 Yurok Indians gathered for an unusual ritual. After three younger members of the tribe hollowed out a bit of earth, a Yurok leader reverentially placed seven bags in the hole. Ella Norris, 83, the tribe's oldest member, moved forward. Raising her eyes toward the sky, she said a prayer in English and in the language of her forebears: "We are sorrowful for the sacrilegious actions of the past. May these remains lie peacefully at rest forever...
...Indian heritage group led by William Pink, 31, the state parks and recreation department agreed to allow the tribes to reclaim bones and artifacts from its collection in Sacramento. Curator Francis Riddell was in despair: "We're giving back what I spent 25 years excavating and preserving." The Yuroks reburied their bones in an unmarked plot to guard against future looters. The field at Patrick's Point, though it now belongs to the state, is part of an ancient burial ground that was long a favorite target for hunters of Indian relics. Says Yurok Tribal Chairman Joy Sundberg...
...therapy exist universally in sample cultures. Fisher finds that such therapy, as a means of dealing with undesirable deviants from a culture's norms, does involve common elements in the deviant-therapist relationship. Western psychoanalysis, the Navaho "Singer" treatment and related ritualistic healings in the cultures of the Saulteaux, Yurok, and Guatemalan Indians have certain points in common. Especially significant are the common traits of curing through an emotional experience, with the assumption that the cause of the disturbance lies beyond the patient's conscious self, whether in repressed libido or evil spirits...
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