Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One

✍ Scribed by Heather Burke, Claire E Smith, Dorothy Lippert, Joe E Watkins, Larry J Zimmerman

• Publisher: Left Coast Press / Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
FOREWORD
The Dead Have No Rights?
1. Perspectives on the Ancient One
BACKGROUND
2. Kennewick: A Timeline of Events, 1996–2007
3. A Review of Stability in Plateau Culture Area Burial Practices
VOICES OF THE TRIBAL COALITION
4. Ancient One/Kennewick Man: (Former) Tribal Chair Questions Scientists’ Motives and Credibility
5. Human Remains Should Be Reburied
THE APPEAL DECISION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HERITAGE
Introduction to the Reprint of an Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks’s Kennewick Man Decision
6. An Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks’s Kennewick Man Decision
Addendum: The 9th Circuit’s Decision on the Kennewick Man Appeal
7. Law and Bones and What the Meaning of “Is” Is
8. Kennewick Man, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the World Archaeological Congress: A Matter of Heritage Law
9. Kennewick Man: A Virtual Political Object “Under Construction”
10. Are These My People?
11. A Voice Must Be Heard
VOICES OF THE TRIBAL COALITION
12. Respect and Honor
13. The Ancient One
AFTER KENNEWICK: THE WIDER REPERCUSSIONS OF NAGPRA
14. Owning Indians: NAGPRA Redux
15. Colonizing America: Paleoamericans in the New World
16. The Law Is an Ass: A Perspective on the Ancient One
17. My Mother Married a White Man
18. Whose Family? Negotiating Stewardship of the Ancestors
VOICES OF THE TRIBAL COALITION
19. Comments Regarding the “Ancient One”
20. An Interview with Adeline Fredin
LEARNING FROM KENNEWICK 1: THE CASE FOR SCIENCE
21. Exploring the Kennewick Connection
22. Kennewick Man and Assessments of “Race” Using a Variety of Research Methods
23. Ancestors, Anthropology, and Knowledge
VOICES OF THE TRIBAL COALITION
24. An Interview with Joe Pakootas
THE PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY (AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS)
25. Governing Kennewick
26. Kennewick Man/the Ancient One: Critical Whiteness and the Practice of Archaeology
27. Ownership or Stewardship? Cultural Affiliation and Archaeological Ethics as Social Ethics
28. Archaeology as Activism
29. My Own Personal “Kennewick Man”
30. Kennewick Man: What Does the Future Hold?
31. Archaeology the Tribal Way: Reestablishing the Boundaries of Culture
VOICES OF THE TRIBAL COALITION
32. An Interview with Connie Johnston
33. An Interview with Mary A. Marchand
LEARNING FROM KENNEWICK 2: COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES
34. Cultural Return, Restitution, and the Limits of Possibility
35. Moving beyond Kennewick: Other Native American Perspectives on Bioarchaeological Data and Intellectual Property Rights
36. Voices of the Future: A View from Outside the United States
37. Learning from Our Old People and the Politics of Being Indigenous: A Ngarrindjeri Response to the Ancient One Case
38. Listening and Respecting across Generations and beyond Borders: The Ancient One and Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island)
39. Law or Lore? Speaking Sovereignty in the Kennewick Case
40. Body and Soul: Crossing a Great Distance
EPILOG
41. Those Funfunfunnybones
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHORS