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Mar 12
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Roundup: Historians' TakePosted by: Trainee in General on Mar 12, 2010 Tagged in: University , teachers , reconciliation , politics , policy , Obama , museums , Law , holocaust
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Source: HNN; 12 March, 2010
While on a trip to the east coast from my home in Berkeley I get the news that yet another Native American site on California's northwest coast has been vandalized. Between the 1780s - when Thomas Jefferson dug up a huge cemetery containing a thousand human remains - and the 1970s, when the Red Power movement began to put amateur and professional archaeologists on the defensive, the discovery and excavation of native skeletons was promoted as good sport, entrepreneurial initiative, and sound science.
