PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 25 — A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit over one of the oldest and most complete human skeletons ever found in North America to go forward, setting in motion a case that could ultimately redefine the term “Native American.”
U.S. MAGISTRATE John Jelderks on Wednesday reactivated a 1996 lawsuit by scientists who want to continue studying Kennewick Man, a set of 9,000-year-old bones that have already forced anthropologists to rethink theories about the origin of Native Americans.
Five American Indian tribes have claimed him as an ancestor, and have said study of the bones would violate their religious traditions.
The lawsuit contesting a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to turn the bones over to the tribes was put on hold, pending research by the Interior Department. Last month, the department decided the tribes should be allowed to rebury the bones. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said he determined the remains were “culturally affiliated” with the tribes because they were found near their aboriginal lands.
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U.S. MAGISTRATE John Jelderks on Wednesday reactivated a 1996 lawsuit by scientists who want to continue studying Kennewick Man, a set of 9,000-year-old bones that have already forced anthropologists to rethink theories about the origin of Native Americans.
Five American Indian tribes have claimed him as an ancestor, and have said study of the bones would violate their religious traditions.
The lawsuit contesting a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to turn the bones over to the tribes was put on hold, pending research by the Interior Department. Last month, the department decided the tribes should be allowed to rebury the bones. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said he determined the remains were “culturally affiliated” with the tribes because they were found near their aboriginal lands.
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/323998.asp
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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]