By la Macha
The practice many universities and museums have of destroying and pilfering native peoples burial grounds in the name of “knowledge” is a long, disgusting and obscene practice. It is one that stems from the belief that Native bodies are extinct and “of the world.” That is, Native peoples are a rare species that [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by hunwut
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David Ng
You could call it the skeleton in the Page Museum’s closet.
For years, the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles has housed a 9,000-year-old set of bones that is said to be the only human remains recovered from the Rancho La Brea area, which is famous for its prehistorical tar pits. A cast of [...]

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by hunwut
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Navajo archaeologists say ‘it’s about time’
By Chee Brossy, Navajo Times
WINDOW ROCK - Harmless hobby or devastating crime?
There seems to be a difference in opinion over the June 10 sting that netted 24 people charged with stealing and dealing in Native American artifacts in Blanding, Utah.

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Yelena Akopian, Senior Staff Writer
Mansions built atop ancient American-Indian burial grounds are the stuff of legends. But just off campus on Regents Road, that stereotype is more fact than fiction.
Sitting literally on top of an ancient American-Indian cemetery — UCSD’s records show 29 human remains have been removed from the chancellor’s historic residence over [...]

Posted on June 1st, 2009 by hunwut
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By Dave Schwab - La Jolla Light
With each new project built around San Diego, more artifacts and remains of Native Americans will be uncovered, necessitating the services of archaeological “monitors” such as Carmen Lucas and Clint Linton.
A Kwaaymii Indian, Lucas has worked closely with the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee (KCRC) for the past decade overseeing [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by hunwut
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Ann Gibbons
After weeks of protest from anthropologists, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), officials have withdrawn their request to the federal government to rebury the skeletal remains (left) of Paleoindians unearthed near the chancellor’s home in La Jolla. The rare, 10,000-year-old bones were found in 1976. Anthropologists and the university’s own scientific working group wanted [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Steve Schmidt, Union-Tribune Staff Writer
Skeletal remains unearthed at the University of California San Diego more than 30 years ago have sparked a fresh debate between the interests of science and culture - and the university is caught in the crossfire.
Administrators at the La Jolla campus want federal approval to turn over bones found near [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by hunwut
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How scientists and Native Americans pulled off a major dig before the feds triple border fence destroyed everything
By Gayle Early
During the past year, archaeologists have been digging like mad to preserve one of the last remaining ancient Indian village sites in coastal Southern California, racing against the claw of the bulldozers and massive grind of [...]

Posted on March 17th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Brenda Norrell
NOGALES, Ariz. — Homeland Security destroyed 69 graves of Tohono O’odham ancestors in one location alone while constructing the US/Mexico border wall south of Tucson, in violation of all federal laws created to protect American Indian remains.
Homeland Security and US courts waived all federal laws to protect Native American graves and the environment [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 by hunwut
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Grave Situation
Native American battle over the possible disturbance of an Indian burial site at a Mission San Juan Capistrano garden gets ugly
By MATT COKER
A legal battle over beautification of a long-neglected dirt lot over Mission San Juan Capistrano’s Old Cemetery is born out of “a vendetta,” according to one attorney arguing the case.
Ed Connor, who [...]

Posted on December 24th, 2008 by hunwut
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