Sure, there is plenty to be learned about Kennewick Man, and I support the study. However, I reject the myth that Kennewick Man is a European who was brutally murdered as part of a systemic genocide by American Indians. I reject the myth that Kennewick Man was a "European White Guy", when he is, in fact, a prehistoric man of undetermined culture. I reject pretty much anything those Asatru White Supremacist folks have to say (but which many FReepers quote as gospel, without realizing it) about the remains.
I'd love to know more about the prehistoric cultures of America, and Kennewick Man provides that opportunity. However, I will fight the studies if Kennewick Man is going to be used strictly for the purpose of "proving that European Whites were here first"... I will fight the study if ANY political agenda is at play.
Let's study Kennewick man -- and Buhl woman and Spirit Cave man while we're at it if we can dig them out from where they've been reburied -- and add more pieces to this fascinating puzzle picture. It's my personal belief (based on a whole lot of study) that there were people from many places in the western hemisphere long before the paleoindians moved down from Siberia.
Most came by boat, skirting glacier ice, and settled in middle and south america. I believe this happened as much as 50 or 60,000 years ago (there are sites in Brazil of that claimed age). I don't know where they came from or all of the ways they got here, but I'd like to find out. Sen. Campbell is a Luddite and so are others who would suppress scientific evidence in favor of a political agenda.