Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One

by Burke,Heather; Burke,Heather

• ISBN13: 9781598743470
• ISBN10: 1598743473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Kennewick Man, known as the Ancient One to Native Americans, has been the lightning rod for conflict between archaeologists and indigenous peoples in the United States. A decade-long legal case pitted scientists against Native American communities and highlighted the shortcomings of the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), designed to protect Native remains. In this volume, we hear from the many sides of this issue-archaeologists, tribal leaders, and others-as well as views from the international community. The wider implications of the case and its resolution is explored. Comparisons are made to similar cases in other countries and how they have been handled. Appendixes provide the legal decisions, appeals, and chronology to allow full exploration of this landmark legal struggle. An ideal starting point for discussion of this case in anthropology, archaeology, Native American studies, and cultural property law courses. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Dead Have No Rights?	p. 9
Perspectives on the Ancient One	p. 20
Background
Kennewick: A Timeline of Events, 1996-2007	p. 26
A Review of Stability in Plateau Culture Area Burial Practices	p. 38
Voices of the Tribal Coalition 1
Ancient One/Kennewick Man: (Former) Tribal Chair Questions Scientists' Motives and Credibility	p. 40
Human Remains Should Be Reburied	p. 42
The Appeal Decision and the Construction of Heritage
Introduction to the Reprint of an Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks's Kennewick Man Decision	p. 44
An Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks's Kennewick Man Decision	p. 45
Addendum: The 9th Circuit's Decision on the Kennewick Man Appeal	p. 67
Law and Bones and What the Meaning of "Is" Is	p. 73
Kennewick Man, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the World Archaeological Congress: A Matter of Heritage Law	p. 83
Kennewick Man: A Virtual Political Object "Under Construction"	p. 88
Are These My People?	p. 94
A Voice Must Be Heard	p. 96
Voices of the Tribal Coalition 2
Respect and Honor	p. 99
The Ancient One	p. 102
After Kennewick: The Wider Repercussions of NAGPRA
Owning Indians: NAGPRA Redux	p. 103
Colonizing America: Paleoamericans in the New World	p. 128
The Law Is an Ass: A Perspective on the Ancient One	p. 138
My Mother Married a White Man	p. 141
Whose Family? Negotiating Stewardship of the Ancestors	p. 144
Voices of the Tribal Coalition 3
Comments Regarding the "Ancient One"	p. 146
An Interview with Adeline Fredin	p. 149
Learning from Kennewick 1: The Case for Science
Exploring the Kennewick Connection	p. 153
Kennewick Man and Assessments of "Race" Using a Variety of Research Methods	p. 169
Ancestors, Anthropology, and Knowledge	p. 173
Voices of the Tribal Coalition 4
An Interview with Joe Pakootas	p. 175
The Practice of Archaeology (and Archaeologists)
Governing Kennewick	p. 178
Kennewick Man/the Ancient One: Critical Whiteness and the Practice of Archaeology	p. 182
Ownership or Stewardship? Cultural Affiliation and Archaeological Ethics as Social Ethics	p. 188
Archaeology as Activism	p. 203
My Own Personal "Kennewick Man"	p. 207
Kennewick Man: What Does the Future Hold?	p. 212
Archaeology the Tribal Way. Reestablishing the Boundaries of Culture	p. 217
Voices of the Tribal Coalition 5
An Interview with Connie Johnston	p. 223
An Interview with Mary A. Marchand	p. 226
Learning from Kennewick 2: Comparative Case Studies
Cultural Return, Restitution, and the Limits of Possibility	p. 229
Moving beyond Kennewick: Other Native American Perspectives on Bioarchaeological Data and Intellectual Property Rights	p. 233
Voices of the Future: A View from Outside the United States	p. 244
Learning from Our Old People and the Politics of Being Indigenous: A Ngarrindjeri Response to the Ancient One Case	p. 248
Listening and Respecting across Generations and beyond Borders: The Ancient One and Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island)	p. 260
Law or Lore? Speaking Sovereignty in the Kennewick Case	p. 268
Body and Soul: Crossing a Great Distance	p. 271
Epilog
Those Funfunfunnybones	p. 274
Index	p. 283
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