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We would not dream of desecrating their final resting places, so why are Native Americans acceptable targets? Archaeologists might argue that Native Americans are often buried with pottery and other artifacts which can provide clues about our country’s beginnings as well as Native American culture and beliefs...
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Perhaps that is an acceptable excuse, but shouldn’t permission of any living relatives or existing tribes be consulted before any excavation begins? Certainly we should prevent reckless exhumations, such as the one Harjo mentions which occurred at Slack Farm in Kentucky where ‘skeletons were strewn about like litter,” (para...
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