Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One

by Heather Burke (Editor), Claire E Smith (Editor), Dorothy Lippert (Editor), Joe E Watkins (Editor), Larry J Zimmerman (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598743470
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/15/2008
Series:	Archaeology & Indigenous Peoples Series
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dorothy Lippert, Heather Burke, Claire E Smith, Joe E Watkins, Larry J. Zimmerman

Table of Contents

1: Perspectives on the Ancient One 1; Background; 2: Kennewick: A Timeline of Events, 1996–2007 1; 3: A Review of Stability in Plateau Culture Area Burial Practices; Voices of the Tribal Coalition 1; 4: Ancient One / Kennewick Man: (Former) Tribal Chair Questions Scientists' Motives and Credibility 1; 5: Human Remains Should Be Reburied?; The Appeal Decision and the Construction of Heritage; 6: Introduction to the Reprint of An Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks's Kennewick Man Decision; 7: Law and Bones and What the Meaning of “Is” Is 1; 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 2; 12: Respect and Honor; 13: The Ancient One; After Kennewick: The Wider Repercussions of Nagpra; 14: Owning Indians: Nagpra Redux 1; 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 3; 19: Comments Regarding the Ancient One; 20: An Interview with Adeline Fredin 1; 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 4; 24: An Interview with Joe Pakootas 1; 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? 1; 31: Archaeology the Tribal Way: Reestablishing the Boundaries of Culture; Voices of the Tribal Coalition 5; 32: An Interview with Connie Johnston 1; 33: An Interview with Mary A. Marchand 1; 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 1 Old People and the Politics of Being Indigenous: A Ngarrindjeri Response to the Ancient One Case; 38: Listening and Responding 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

Editorial Reviews

"Much relevant scholarship on American Indians today is taking a new approach toward collaborative processes. In the best scenario tribal voices are leading the discussion, no longer treated by outside scholars as subjects of interest but as scholars themselves and as partners in the discourse. No recent case seems to have had a need for these collaborative processes and thoughtful voices to lend themselves to more than that of the case of the Ancient One. The contents of this book reveal a connected series of voices, all of which have either a personal stake in or a well-thought-out and meaningful take on the plight and fate of this nine-thousand-year-old figure. Readers can view this book, with its short, palatable essays, metaphorically as a conversation among friends and interested parties who are perhaps sitting around a virtual coffee table where serious discussion is taking place, with all of the urgency of life, death, and the spiritual realm at stake. The importance of the fact that repatriation is continuing along, progressing from a movement to a wellpracticed implementation of tribal rights and sovereignty, is well emphasized among these pages."

-Jennifer Karson Engum, American Indian Quarterly

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