In the heated battle of who can control the past critical information and an abundance of education is being lost from the study of ancestral remains. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) is plummeting our modern society into the past. Archeologists now not only have to deal with the difficult task of piecing together the remains of past generations, but to now take on the daunting task of upholding science in the courthouse.
How can a society point a finger and determine whom in fact owns our past? If we look back far enough into time we see our origins as a common ancestry, and we are in fact descendants of a single race that migrated throughout the globe. There are eleven tribes fighting for the burial rights of more than one thousand Native American skeletons found in the Fonto national forest in Arizona dating back to almost two thousand years. Four tribes from southern Arizona want the bones buried on there reservation, because......
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