[Bernard Marx]

That sounds right enough to me. Agenda-driven "science" is as despicable as the social agenda stuff that's been going on since the Kennedy administration. I'm not aware of agendas on the part of any of the scientists litigating for the Kennewick bones.

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.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I pretty much agree with what you've said here... I just wish other FReepers could be as loaded with common sense about it. But, I guess I'll just s**t in one hand, and wish in the other...

Kennewick Man changes nothing about my family's 10,000+ history in this land, no matter what the results of a study show. The one thing I AM positive of, though, is that Kennewick Man is not a "Caucasian". :0)