News from under an hour ago. How come I found the paper on Kennewick Man's DNA several days before the US govt could be bothered?
And how come the DNA analysis came out almost a year ago, and the US govt only found out about it now?
usnews.com/news/science/articles/2016-04-27/corps-determines-kennewick-man-is-native-american
May the Native Americans forever be victorious heathens.
Native Americans should have chased the alien demons off their lands - Turtle Island (so-called Americas) - long ago. They'd be totally justified if they were to do it now.
And how come the DNA analysis came out almost a year ago, and the US govt only found out about it now?
usnews.com/news/science/articles/2016-04-27/corps-determines-kennewick-man-is-native-american
Quote:Kennewick Man Was a Native American
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that Kennewick Man is related to modern Native American tribes.
April 27, 2016, at 6:36 p.m.
[img caption:] A plastic casting of the skull from the bones known as Kennewick Man, is shown in in Richland, Wash. Elaine Thompson/AP
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) ââ¬â The ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man is related to modern Native American tribes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday, opening the process for returning to tribes for burial one of the oldest and most complete set of bones ever found in North America.
The Northwestern Division of the corps said its decision was based on a review of new information, particularly recently published DNA and skeletal analyses.
(The clinching DNA analysis is almost a year old, duh. Where were the "US Army Corps of Engineers" until then? Why did they only find out now? And not a week after I did?
Maybe AmriKKKa thought it could get away with leaving the matter ambiguous forever while pretending to be sympathetic to the Native American side. Guess Allentoft & co. accidentally rained on the white supremacism party.)
The corps, which has custody of the remains, said the skeleton is now covered by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
(Interesting that the corps has had custody of the remains for almost a year after the Rasmussen et al 2015 paper featuring Allentoft came out.)
The 8,500-year-old remains were discovered in 1996 in southeastern Washington near the Columbia River in Kennewick, triggering a lengthy legal fight between tribes and scientists over whether the bones should be buried immediately or studied.
The bones will remain at the Burke Museum in Seattle until the corps determines which tribe or tribes will receive them.
The next step is for interested tribes to submit a claim to acquire the skeleton for burial, said Michael Coffey, a spokeswoman for the corps in Portland, Oregon.
Determining which tribe receives the bones is likely to be a lengthy process, Coffey said. In the past, the Colville, Yakama, Umatilla, Nez Perce and Wanapum Indians have claimed a connection to them.
The AmriKKKan govt is deliberately trying to stoke controversy and drag this on, so they can pretend to "intervene" as a "disinterested unrelated party", maybe to put the remains back in a museum.
(But did these people even read the Allentoft paper? It says clearly:
nature.com/nature/journal/v523/n7561/full/nature14625.html
Quote:We find that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide. Among the Native American groups for whom genome-wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man.
So, since the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation are the closest among those claiming him, they may have the right of choosing where to bury their ancestor and let them invite the other native Americans claiming him, and any others that want to attend the rite. Or however the Colville native Americans choose to do this.)
"We still have a lot of work to do," Coffey said.
However, a spokesman for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon said the tribes plan to cooperate to hasten the burial.
"We will send in our joint request for disposition for the reburial of the Ancient One," Sams said.
(Such a good, noble people. Of course the alien demons would have tried to genocide them. Isn't that ALL the alien demons have ever done?)
Last year, new genetic evidence determined the remains were closer to modern Native Americans than any other population in the world. Following that, the corps began to re-examine Kennewick Man's status.
"I am confident that our review and analysis of new skeletal, statistical, and genetic evidence have convincingly led to a Native American Determination," said Brig. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon, commander of the corps' Northwestern Division.
Sams said the corps' finding was correct.
"After 20 years, it acknowledges what we already knew and have been saying since the beginning," Sams said.
Most scientists trace modern native groups to Siberian ancestors who arrived by way of a land bridge that used to extend to Alaska. But features of Kennewick Man's skull led some scientists to suggest the man's ancestors came from elsewhere.
Researchers turned to DNA analysis to try to clarify the skeleton's ancestry. They recovered DNA from a fragment of hand bone, mapped its genetic code and compared that to modern DNA from native peoples of the Americas and populations around the world.
The results showed a greater similarity to DNA from the Americas than from anywhere else.
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May the Native Americans forever be victorious heathens.
Native Americans should have chased the alien demons off their lands - Turtle Island (so-called Americas) - long ago. They'd be totally justified if they were to do it now.