While it is very clear what the United States government has done in the past to the resident inhabitants of it's country I'd like to ask if anyone feels there is sort of a backlash against science and understanding from the Native communities rooted in this mistreatment? What happened was a sad reality of a changing world, and I still don't think there has been a true denunciation of the events nor reparation from our government. Additionally we still to this day allow the land to be over run by the highest bidders, something I find extremely distasteful as an average person earning an honest living. However I have to ask as someone who is not religious who acknowledges there is still much good in our civilization, can the reverse become the reality? This link describes where I am leading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewi...ip_controversy More and more evidence supports the notion that the Americas were settled by many people, and I've never truly believed that in all of history no one attempted to cross the waters or that every attempt was doomed to failure. Taking this into consideration do we owe ourselves an honest and fair understanding of history or a biased one fueled by retribution? Who has the rights to history?
I fear that i do not exactly understand what you mean If i understood correctly, native americans only bury their deads on ancestral lands, so finding cementery means that those lands belongs to a particular people, rigth? And you think that this is mixing up religion with positive law, rigth? Well, it is a complicated subject. A close friend of mine is an archeaologyst and he faces this problem often in his work. He often points that "modern" religions often take the analysis of remains as a science prerrogative and usually do not disturb them (althrough orthodoxian jews in Israel still throw stones to the archeologists seeking to uncover buried material, fearing that someone´s rest is disturbed. It is not an exclusivity of Native Americans)
