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To: Ilaine who wrote (35705)	4/25/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Blue, are you seriously asserting that there is a concerted conspiracy among all archaeologists to do no digging of Native American remains? I realize that there is a 1990 federal law which requires that remains be returned to the tribes after they have been studied. If you actually read the Newsweek article I cited earlier, you will see that it discusses in detail remains that have been found in the last couple of years: newsweek.com It also discusses the "Clovis mafia", the group of archaeologists who have simply decided that there were no inhabitants of America before 11,000 years ago, period, and are sticking to their story, evidence to the contrary. I would also note that my current issue of the quarterly journal Archaeology refers to digs in North America, and also recent findings. And it seems hard to imagine that archaeologists would mount a conspiracy so widespread that all the academics at countless colleges and universities are in on it, tacitly agreeing not to dig, when the conservatism and lack of intellectual curiosity among some of them are now getting national press attention like the Newsweek cover article. Here is a discussion of a recent dig which was just reported, changing our knowledge of the time line of southwest peoples: sfgate.com I guess these archaeologists missed that New Yorker article! Interestingly, not all tribes even want their remains back. Navajo superstitions about the dead, and the cost of performing all the required ceremonies, are causing this tribe to not want their remains returned at all. From an article called "Navajos Officials are Reluctant to Reclaim Relics from Burial Sites, by Bill Donovan in the Arizona Republic last week: " . . . 'We have been advised by hathalie (medicine men) to be careful about what we ask to be returned by the museums because they do not want anything exhibited at the museum that was removed from a burial site' said Richard M. Begay, head of the tribe's Traditional Cultural Program. The same attitude seems to pertain to the thousands of human remains collected by museums for research. While other tribes have worked with museums such as the Smithsonian and the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff to get the human remains returned for reburial, Navajo officials say that their medicine men and reservation communities have expressed no desire to do so."