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Is it any wonder that many Indians today bitterly resent and mistrust both anthropology and archeology, referring to them as 'vulture cultures'? In 1996, one of the continent's oldest and most complete skeletons, Kennewick Man, was unearthed in central Washington.

Is there a greater paradox in North American history than the Indian? Labeling them either superhuman or subhuman, noble or savage, we've had a hard time placing the people that Columbus mistakenly called 'los Indios.' When Native Americans began disappearing after centuries of maltreatment, scientists promoting bogus racial theories arrogantly collected Indian cultural artifacts and physical remains, robbing graves and decapitating those killed in battle, before packing off their religious items, skulls and bones to museums.

Skull wars by david hurst thomas