Judge: Group Should Get Skeleton (Kennewick Man)

AP ^ | 8-31-02 | William McCall

[Pharmboy]

Surprised this wasn't posted, but negative search. I wonder if this judgement will stand?

[Physicist]

Ainu it would end this way.

[B Knotts]

Hooray! This is great news!

[B Knotts]

LOL. Awful pun.

[egarvue]

*groan*, good one :-)

But they'll probably just Sioux again, until they win.

[B Knotts]

Make it so!

[Pharmboy]

Boy, he looks like an IT guy in my company...

[Pharmboy]

Huron to bet it's not over?

[B Knotts]

Incidentally, if an AM should happen across this, there's a misspelling in the title. It should be "Kennewick Man." Could be important in the future when searching.

[justshe]

Good catch on this information!

The judge also criticized former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and the Army Corps of Engineers for the way they handled the case.

Babbitt used a VERY liberal interpretation of the Indian Graves act in making his decision (DUH---it WAS Babbitt afterall).

I actually hope that the DOJ will drop this case now. A decision will probably not be made until they analyze their 'liability exposure' under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, a law intended to prevent theft and illegal trafficking of Indian artifacts, protect tribal burial sites and restore the remains of ancestors to the tribes.

To US it is a no-brainer.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for pointing that out...my bad.

[libertynews]

This is good news, the last I had heard was that the bones were to be turned over to the tribe for re-burial. I's sad that it takes this much screwing around (and taxpayer $$$) to gry to discover the truth about an archeological find. Some have speculated that the tribes don't want it examined because it might prove that they weren't the 'first' ones here.

[Admin Moderator]

Fixed. Thanks, AM

[dead]

Bonnichsen was one of eight scientists who sued soon after the 9,300-year-old skeleton was discovered in July 1996 in Kennewick, Wash.

There was as many tribal indians in the Americas 9,300 years ago as there were Vietnamese and Swiss.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Wasn't this the one where they dumped a load of gravel on the site to cover it up?

[Drango]

in a careful examination of the administrative record

6 years! DUH

[Seti 1]

I bet the government will Sioux.

[Congressman Billybob]

Decisions that are heavily factual are rarely reversed on appeal. Appeals courts can reverse the legal findings of a trial court simply because they conclude differently, but when it comes to facts, the decision of the trial court (here a Magistrate) is entitled to "great weight."

Notice that in his decision, the Magistrate finds rampant prejudice and disonesty in the Department of the Interior under Bruce Babbitt. Babbitt came into the Clinton Adminstration with a reputation for strict honesty. He left it as a criminal who would lie to protect his dishonest bosses, and turn his Department upside down to do whatever his bosses commanded.

Of course, he was an unindicted criminal, since Janet ("the Just") Reno was then the Attorney General. Whatever happened to "Shaky" Janet? I haven't heard a word about her since she hung up her spurs as a burner and kidnapper of children, defender of the Clintons (him and her), and a general credit to her sex (whatever that may be).

Congressman Billybob

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[Congressman Billybob]

Wow! Was this guy separated from Captain Picard at birth, or what?

Billybob

[ELS]

That was my first thought when I saw the picture on the right.