Bone of contention

Humanist, Sept-Oct, 2004 by Karen Ann Gajewski

> The 9,300-year-old skeleton of Kennewick Man, currently held at the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington, has been a bone of contention between scientists and four Native American tribes. But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted conservatorship to the scientists, ruling that it was impossible to establish a relationship by the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, and Colville tribes, which sought possession of "the ancient one."