[wolfcreek]

Both of these topics point to "others" being here before the Indians.

If We don't know, how would they? 'Since the beginning of time' is very vague to say the least.

[chichilarue]

ummm...if we don't know what?

[Redcloak]

We won't know if research is hampered by special interest groups. The tribes in western WA and ID tried for years to get the right to destroy the Kenniwick skeleton. It looks like the courts have finally decided that they have no relationship whatsoever to Kenniwick man's people and thus no claim to his remains. Research is now being allowed to continue.

(On a side note: There was a Time magazine cover story on Kenniwick Man recently. Someone decided that a more PC reconstruction of his appearance was needed. The version that appeared on the cover looked far more "Indian" than the version that was released just after the skeleton's discovery. I guess that Time didn't want to have readers wondering how Patrick Stewart's doppleganger could have died along the banks of the Columbia River 9000 years ago.)