by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 30, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Indian Heritage of America, Indian reservations, Kennewick Man, refugee crisis, refugees, the Ancient One
Alvin Josephy said that reservations and the continuing attachment to land they afforded have been instrumental in the survival of American Indian cultures. Reservations were, for the most part, diminished versions of ancient tribal landscapes, but however diminished,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 10, 2016 | Ancient One, Center for GeoGenetics, Eske Willeslev, Kennewick Man, NAGPRA
Eske Willeslev, the Danish geneticist who led the team that explored the DNA of the Ancient One, aka Kennewick Man, is the director of the Center for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Willerslev and the Center are using ancient DNA to reconstruct...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 30, 2015 | Ancient One, Chatters, Colville tribes, Kennewick Man, Nature Magazine
That is what Tribal people called the skeletal remains that white anthropologists dubbed “Kennewick Man” when he was unearthed along the Columbia in 1996, and quick carbon dating suggested he was 7,500—9,000 years in the ground. They argued that the remains were...
