For someone who has been dead for over 9000 years, Kennewick Man is certainly causing the US government a lot of trouble.
In September, the US Congress will again face the question of whether ancient skeletons such as this should be treated as anthropological gold mines or as ancestral Native Americans deserving of respectful burials.
In 2004 a federal court ruled that a law giving Native American tribes control over their ancestors’ remains does not apply to Kennewick Man – one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America – because no present-day tribe can prove kinship. As a…
