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Editorial: Campbell shouldn't mess with NAGPRA
Friday, October 15, 2004
"Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., is proposing an amendment to expand the Indian grave-protection law so it can be applied to any skeletal remains no matter how old or disconnected from modern tribes.
The argument by Rob Roy Smith, attorney for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, that "something that is indigenous . . . cannot lose indigenousness over time" may be technically correct.
But the law was designed to honor spiritual beliefs about how ancestral remains should be handled. Those beliefs vary from tribe to tribe. It honors no one to if such beliefs are generalized and extended so far into prehistory that information about the origins of the human race goes unexamined."
Get the Story:
Editorial: Bones of contention
(The Arizona Republic 10/15)
Relevant Documents:
S.2843
|
Public
Law 101-601: NAGPRA |
Senate
Testimony |
2004
NAGPRA Report
Court Decision:
BONNICHSEN
v. US (February 4, 2004)
Relevant Links:
Kennewick Man, Department of Interior -
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick
Friends of America's Past -
http://www.friendsofpast.org
Kennewick Man Virtual Interpretive Center, The Tri-City (Washington) Herald
-
http://www.kennewick-man.com
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