-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- -----Original Message----- From: Walter Kenaston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: Fwd: Kenniwick Man cover-up (Fwd from another List:) KENNEWICK MAN COVER-UP [A reader sent this in]: The US federal government continues its three-year effort to block DNA testing on the 9300-year old White man known as Kennewick Man, tests that would verify his race/ethnicity in 30 days (his skeleton has all the markers of Caucasian males) -- and has hired a linguistics (!) expert and other to see if he is "culturally affiliated" with Indian tribes who were NOT EVEN IN THE AREA at the time K-Man lived. Linguistics testing for an ancient skeleton? Hello??? If the feds decide the Kennewick Man is "culturally affiliated" with current Indian tribes (who were NOT PRESENT at the time), he will be handed over to them for secret burial-with no DNA or skeletal testing allowed under the *Native American* Graves Protection & Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) even though it appears Whites were North America's first settlers and that Kennewick Man is of the Euro-tribes, not the Asiatic/Mongolian American Indians. The threat to "Native American" rights and land/resoure giveaways is massive if K-Man is found to be White. <A HREF="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/00/01/st010508.html">Oregon Live: 1-5-00 Portland scientist will wor </A> http://www.oregonlive.com/news/00/01/st010508.html Copyright 2000 Oregon Live (r) The Oregonian Portland scientist will work on Kennewick Man case Kenneth M. Ames is selected along with three other Northwesterners to assist the U.S. government's study Wednesday, January 5, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Richard L. Hill of The Oregonian staff A Portland anthropologist and three other Northwest scientists will help federal officials determine whether the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man is affiliated with modern tribes. Establishing whether the bones are culturally linked to modern tribes could help settle the question of whether the remains will be turned over to a coalition of Northwest tribes, which want to bury them, or to scientists, who want to study them. The U.S. Department of the Interior has selected Kenneth M. Ames, an anthropology professor at Portland State University, to examine the archaeological record of the Columbia Plateau to see what links there may be between inhabitants of the region more than 9,000 years ago and current Native American groups. A radiocarbon date obtained after the bones were discovered indicated they are about 9,300 years old. In court documents filed this week in U.S. District Court in Portland, the Interior Department announced it also had chosen Eugene S. Hunn, a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington; Steven Hackenberger, an associate professor of anthropology at Central Washington University; and Daniel L. Boxberger, a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. Hunn will focus on linguistics, Hackenberger on bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology, and Boxberger on traditional history and ethnography. U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks has set a March 24 deadline for the federal government to respond to a request by eight anthropologists to conduct a thorough study of the skeleton, which was found along the Columbia River shoreline at Kennewick, Wash., in the summer of 1996. The anthropologists filed a lawsuit shortly after the discovery to prevent the federal government from turning the bones over to five Columbia Basin tribes, which want to bury the remains without a scientific study. Frank McManamon, chief archaeologist with the National Park Service, is determining what should be done with Kennewick Man. Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a tribe is required to show that it is culturally linked to the remains in order to claim them. The four scientists have been asked to file draft reports by Jan. 17 and their final reports by Feb. 15. In addition to those appointments, the Interior Department appointed two researchers to determine whether DNA tests are necessary to establish cultural affiliation. The DNA experts are Noreen Tuross of the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education and Connie J. Kolman of the National Institutes of Health. A decision on whether to conduct DNA tests will be made by Jan. 17. New radiocarbon tests also are being completed this week to verify the date obtained in 1996. Ames said he began his review of the archaeological record of southeast Washington a few weeks ago. "It's an interesting but massive task," said Ames, who is wading through research papers as well as talking to tribes and other archaeologists. "The bibliography I'm putting together for my report has more than 500 items," he said. "My job is to cull out the information that the Interior Department officials need for the questions they need to answer. I don't make the cultural-affiliation decision. They do." Ames is the second Portland scientist to work on the controversial Kennewick Man case. John L. Fagan, president of Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc., recently examined the stone point that is embedded in the skeleton's pelvis. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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