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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture submitted by Aluta : Another carving outside the Burke Museum. Unfortunately photography inside the museum is forbidden. If you visit Seattle, you can find examples of Salish carvings, including what we know as totem poles, in various spots around the city. Seattle is proud of its indigenous heritage to an extent we don't see in the eastern U.S. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The museum, part of the University of Washington, includes both natural history and anthropology. Of special interest is the collection of totem poles and artefacts from pre-Columbian cultures of the Pacific Northwest.

The Burke Museum serves as a court-ordered neutral repository for the Kennewick Man remains, found in Columbia Park, Kennewick. The museum is not involved in the examination of the remains. The museum website is here.

The museum webpage on Kennewick Man is here.

Note: 9,000-year-old man yields secrets of America's earliest inhabitants - from his diet Kennewick Man may not have lived the majority of his life in the Columbia Valley - but DNA revealed his closest genetic relations to be modern Native Americans.
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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture submitted by Aluta : This carving stands outside the Burke Museum. In a situation where someone owed someone else money or needed to make reparation for a wrong, the wronged person might make a piece like this, without the flat items it is holding and face it toward the other person's house. This female figure would be a constant reminder of reproach. When the debt was paid, the figure could be moved and the "coppers"... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture submitted by Aluta : Poles outside the Burke Museum. These carvings may have been done by people from the Salish culture. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kennewick Man - The Ancient One - Reburied by bat400 on Friday, 24 February 2017
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More than 200 members from five Columbia Plateau tribes gathered on a chilly Saturday morning to rebury the 9,000-year-old bones of their ancestor, commonly known as the Kennewick Man, at an undisclosed location in southeast Washington.

The ceremony caps more than 20 years of legal challenges and scientific studies that ensued after two college students first discovered the Kennewick Man’s remains along the Columbia River. Scientists in 2015 finally announced that DNA from the skeleton was most closely related to that of modern day American Indians. A following 2016 study by the Army Corps of Engineers, paved the way for the Kennewick Man to be reburied under the guidelines of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

On Friday, the remains were repatriated to five area tribes including the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Nez Perce Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Wanapum Band of Indians.

“We always knew the Ancient One to be Indian,” said Aaron Ashley, member of the CTUIR Board of Trustees and chairman of the Cultural Resources Committee. “We have oral stories that tell of our history on this land and we knew, at the moment of his discovery, that he was our relation.”

Though tribal leaders immediately put in claims for the remains, another group of scientists who wanted to study the bones filed a lawsuit insisting the Kennewick Man was not related to the tribes, based on the shape of the skull.

The scientists eventually won in court, and the Army Corps of Engineers retained custody of the remains. In 2015 a DNA analysis at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark showed the Kennewick Man was, in fact Native American.

Congress passed legislation in 2016 to return the Kennewick Man to the tribes. Repatriation was done Friday, Feb. 17 at the Burke Museum in Seattle, where the remains were being held. It took six hours to account for every piece of bone and bone fragment.

“The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation is proud to have worked with all parties to repatriate the Ancient One to the Tribes,” said Gary Burke, CTUIR board chairman. “We jointly believe in respecting our ancestors of our past and have fulfilled our responsibility to finally lay the Ancient One to rest.”

The remains were buried in the high desert, not far from the Columbia River. Chuck Sams, CTUIR spokesman, was present for both the repatriation and burial of Kennewick Man and said the tribes led a Washat ceremony, singing songs that are thousands of years old and may very well have been from the Kennewick Man’s time.

Afterward, members of the five tribes attended a traditional dinner at the Wanapum Longhouse in Priest Rapids, Washington.

“This is a big day, and our people have come to witness and honor our ancestor,” said Armand Minthorn, CTUIR board member and Longhouse leader. “We continue to practice our beliefs and laws as our Creator has given us since time immemorial.”

Excerpted from the Wallowa County Chieftain. Other stories may be found at Live Science and Associated Press Big Story.

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    Re: Kennewick Man - The Ancient One - Reburied by Blingo_von_Trumpenstein on Monday, 27 February 2017
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    Very pleased to see this finally happening. The reverence for their distant ancestor is truly something to behold. This has caused many years of heartbreak and anxiety for a lot of people in Umatilla and I share in their joy at repatriation. Strength from across the ocean...
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Kennewick Man's Closest Living Relations Modern Native Americans by bat400 on Thursday, 20 August 2015
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Despite earlier morphology suggesting that the Kennewick Man skeleton was not of Native American affinity, DNA analysis shows the "Ancient One" closer to modern Native Americans than to any other existing population.

"The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man," Nature Vol. 523, 455–458(23 July 2015). E. Willerslev, M. Rasmussen, M.Sikora, A.Albrechtsen, T.S. Korneliussen, and others.

Kennewick Man, referred to as the Ancient One by Native Americans, is a male human skeleton discovered in Washington state (USA) in 1996 and initially radiocarbon dated to 8,340–9,200 calibrated years before present (bp). His population affinities have been the subject of scientific debate and legal controversy. Based on an initial study of cranial morphology it was asserted that Kennewick Man was neither Native American nor closely related to the claimant Plateau tribes of the Pacific Northwest, who claimed ancestral relationship and requested repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The morphological analysis was important to judicial decisions that Kennewick Man was not Native American and that therefore NAGPRA did not apply. Instead of repatriation, additional studies of the remains were permitted. Subsequent craniometric analysis affirmed Kennewick Man to be more closely related to circumpacific groups such as the Ainu and Polynesians than he is to modern Native Americans2. In order to resolve Kennewick Man’s ancestry and affiliations, we have sequenced his genome to ~1× coverage and compared it to worldwide genomic data including for the Ainu and Polynesians. We find that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide. Among the Native American groups for whom genome-wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man. We revisit the cranial analyses and find that, as opposed to genome-wide comparisons, it is not possible on that basis to affiliate Kennewick Man to specific contemporary groups. We therefore conclude based on genetic comparisons that Kennewick Man shows continuity with Native North Americans over at least the last eight millennia.

For more, see Nature.com (23 July 2015)
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9,000-year-old man yields secrets of America's earliest inhabitants by bat400 on Friday, 21 November 2014
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Eighteen years after his near-complete skeletal remains were found along the bank of the Columbia River in eastern Washington, Kennewick Man is finally telling his 9,000-year-old story -- and reshaping our knowledge of how North America was first populated by humans.

The prehistoric man's bones have yielded clues about his diet and lineage, convincing forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History that he was an immigrant who had come a long way before his death. Based on his diet of seals and other marine mammals and the shape of his skull, the theory is he and his relatives traveled in boats from Polynesia, along the coasts of Japan, Russia, Alaska, Canada and eventually up the Columbia River.

“We’re realizing there are people getting here much earlier than we thought, and coming using different modes of transportation,” Owsley said.

The dramatic scientific discovery almost didn’t happen because of the federal government. The Army Corps of Engineers tried to give the bones to local tribes for re-burial before they could be studied, but a lawsuit filed by several scientists blocked the transfer. The Corps did manage to prevent any further finds around where the bones were discovered, dumping 2 million pounds of dirt and planting several thousand trees on top of Kennewick Man’s burial site.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Jelderks, who heard the scientists' case, wrote in his opinion the Army Corps of Engineers had ‘prejudged the outcome’ in the interest of fostering a climate of cooperation with the tribes.

The Army Corps of Engineers was enforcing NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The law, which was passed in 1990, established rules for the handling of Native American remains. But Owsley and other experts argued Kennewick Man was not a Native American. He was a Polynesian who would have had no cultural or genetic connection to any Native American.

Still, the Army Corp of Engineers is defending its effort to hand the bones over to the tribes.
“We are very sensitive to the facts the tribes view the remains as being very significant,” said Jennifer Richman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Portland, Ore. “The tribes view the remains as their ancestor.”

Jelderks, and later the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, disagreed with the government and demanded the Army Corps of Engineers allow the bones to be studied. Owsley ran tests on Kennewick Man over a 16-day period.

The Umatilla Tribe continues to fight.

“We maintain, and nothing has been published to date to refute, that the Ancient One is one of our ancestors,” the tribe wrote in a statement.

Anthropologists say the tribes are just trying to flex political muscle and the Corps capitulated.
“That law is supposed to be a compromise between the scientists and Native Americans, not just a one-sided law that hands everything over,” said James Chatters, the first forensic anthropologist to study Kennewick Man.

Kennewick Man is currently being kept away from the public in Seattle’s Burke Museum. Scientists are required to petition the Army Corps of Engineers to run additional tests, which they say they’ll do. They believe Kennewick Man has a lot more to tell them about the history of mankind.

Thanks to coldrum for the link: http://www.foxnews.com/science
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Kennewick Man bones not from Columbia Valley, scientist tells tribes by bat400 on Friday, 12 October 2012
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In a historic first meeting, Columbia Plateau tribal leaders met privately Tuesday with the scientist who led the court battle to study Kennewick Man. The skeleton, more than 9,500 years old, has long been at the center of a rift between tribal members and scientists, led by Doug Owsley, a physical anthropologist (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) who spearheaded the legal challenge to gain access to the skeleton for scientific study.

Owsley says study shows that not only wasn't Kennewick Man Indian, he wasn't even from the Columbia Valley, which was inhabited by prehistoric Plateau tribes.

Tribal leaders who fought for reburial of the remains invited Owsley to meet with them this week to present the scientific findings to date.

After nine years of legal battles, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004 ruled that the remains were not protected by the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), because the bones were so old that it was impossible to establish a link with modern-day Native Americans.

While Owsley has said in the past that Kennewick Man is not of Native-American descent, he said here for the first time that he believed the man was not even from this area. Isotopes in the bones told scientists Kennewick Man was a hunter of marine mammals, such as seals, Owsley said. "They are not what you would expect for someone from the Columbia Valley," he said. "You would have to eat salmon 24 hours a day and you would not reach these values.
"This is a man from the coast, not a man from here. I think he is a coastal man."

Rex Buck, leader of the Wanapum people, told Owsley he appreciated the presentation, but that lamprey eel could provide the same types of marine-mammal nutrients that Owsley noted. "I hope you would think about some of these things, too, and add that to your equation."

Pressed by Armand Minthorn of the Umatilla Board of Trustees, who asked Owsley directly, "Is Kennewick Man Native American?" Owsley said no. "There is not any clear genetic relationship to Native American peoples," Owsley said. "I do not look at him as Native American ... I can't see any kind of continuity. He is a representative of a very different people."
His skull, Owsley said, was most similar to an Asian Coastal people whose characteristics are shared with people, later, of Polynesian descent.

And, while tribes want the remains returned for reburial, Owsley said there is still much more to learn from the skeleton, which has largely been inaccessible but for two instances, in which a team of about 15 scientists could study it for a total of about two weeks. Tribal members listened for hours to Owsley's highly detailed presentation, but it did not budge their conviction that Kennewick Man is a part of their people's past — and needs to be reburied.

The remains of Kennewick Man reside at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. Tribal members make regular visits to the museum to pay their respects. Minthorn said reburial still needs to happen, and that the law should be changed to give tribes better control of sacred remains.

"That is the only way we will get him back," said Minthorn, who added that tribes are waiting until after the election to continue their push to get the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act changed in Congress, so tribes can press for return of the skeleton.

"Today just adds to getting the Kennewick Man back," he told Owsley. "That is our goal and that is going to be our effort. It would be great if you could help. If you don't that is OK, too."

Ruth Jim, a member of the Yakama Tribal Council, where she is head of the tribe's cultural committee, said it is frustrating that Kennewick Man is still out of the ground. "I don't disagree that the scientists want to do their job, but there should be a time limit. The only concern we have as tribal leaders is he needs to return to Mother Earth," she sai

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