Regulatory Recognition of Native Histories

[rashore]

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This is a story of courts and agencies interpreting regulations in a way that frustrates a law’s purpose and perpetuates the United States’ custom of undermining the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This story begins more than 8,000 years ago with the death of a man who came to rest near present-day Kennewick, Washington. Fast-forward to 1996 when two college students discovered his remains along the banks of the Columbia River. The discovery ignited a 20-year dispute.

The human being at the center of this dispute became known as the “Kennewick Man” among scientists and colloquially otherwise. His kin regard him as the Ancient One.

https://www.theregreview.org/2021/03/30/sexton-regulatory-recognition-native-histories/

 

[Myles]

I think I side with the scientists on this one.  It's 8,000 years old.   We can learn allot from it.