So, what were the reasons of hiding the old skeleton away from science? First, many Native Americans are tired of having skeletons of their ancestors examined and put in museums. They believe that once a body is buried in the ground, that is where they belong. Another reason is, Kennewick Man's bones are part of a growing quantity of evidence that the earliest inhabitants of the New World may have been of Caucasoid people. With that said, the Corps decision was to turn the skeleton to the Umatillas and have them bury it. Eight anthropologists sued the Corps fighting that the Corps had no evidence to support its claim it had a connection to the Umatillas. …
