I’ve seen this very thing secondhand, but up in South Dakota. My former Civil Economics teacher was convicted of looting after he found a Native American burial on his land and opened it. I think he might’ve sold whatever he found. I don’t know with certainty, but my guess is it amounted to a small pile beads and a handful of arrowheads. Not only is there the law about forbidding the sale of privately uncovered items, but increasingly there is the increasingly over-reaching demand for the return of everything to be secretly disposed of by the local tribes under the blanket claims that it belongs to them via their ancestry or religion. What I little I’ve heard about the Kennewick Man tends to irritate me. Overzealous tribes asserting that even scientific studies being done prior to the handover of the remains were offensive. Its not always the looters that cost science and history the possible knowledge we might’ve gained had items been studied.but the nig-nogs. How dare they object to the White Man digging up their ancestral burials to fondle the remains? Typical 'nig-nog' ignorance! It gets worse (Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:22 am posted by: rpearsonpeaol)
Anything found on 'my property' belongs to me-anything found on federal land or other peoples/tribes land belongs to them but requires a finders 'fee'. The Fed Gov is becoming a US Gestapo in enforcing assine laws put in place to placate one or more political groups, in many cases indians. Now fed gov laws being created to allow fed gov to seize anything they want to. Kennewick Man a prime example of sucking up and placating indians, a total bullshit knee jerk response to an important find. [...]Richard Knack argues (Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:37 am) that 'the arkies' are overstepping the mark allegedly confiscating artefacts that were 'simply randomly dropped items in a public park or on a beach from innocent metal detectorists enjoying their hobby':
Things are going TOO far, and it's high time we, the People, started telling Big Brother "NO! - you forget, YOU work for US!".Actually they work for all of us ('Indians' too), which is a bit different from working just for collectors who want to take away artefacts extracted from sites in order to enjoy their hobby when it is done at the expense of trashing the archaeological heritage.
Vignette: Collectors see themselves as an elite entitled somehow to treat the citizens of source countries as their inferiors lacking in any rights
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