Editing Kennewick Man (section)

==Custody of Kennewick Man==
In October 1998, the remains were deposited at the [[Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture|Burke Museum]] at the [[University of Washington]]. The Burke Museum was the court-appointed neutral repository for the remains, and did not exhibit them. They were then still legally the property of the US Army Corps of Engineers, as they were found on land under its custody.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/kman/ |title=Kennewick Man |publisher=Burke Museum |access-date=October 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110403085637/http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/kman/ |archive-date=April 3, 2011 }}</ref>

According to NAGPRA, if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe may claim them. Two months after discovery in 1996, the [[Umatilla people|Umatilla]] tribe requested custody of the remains so they could be reburied according to tribal tradition. It was contested by researchers who believed Kennewick Man was not affiliated with modern Indians.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ctuir.org/kman1.html |title=Human Remains Should Be Reburied |last=Minthorn |first=Armand |date=September 1996 |publisher=Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation |access-date=July 28, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812090048/http://ctuir.org/kman1.html |archive-date=August 12, 2014 }}</ref> The Umatilla argued that their [[oral history]] goes back 10,000 years, and they had been present on the territory since the dawn of time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=David Hurst|title=Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity|year=2001|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0465092253|page=[https://archive.org/details/skullwarskennewi00thom/page/n23/mode/2up?view=theater Preface: xxii] |quote=Our oral history goes back 10,000 years. We know how time began and how Indian people were created. They can say whatever they want, the scientists. They are being disrespectful.}}</ref> Native American tribes asserted that the claims that Kennewick Man was of non-Indian origin was an attempt to evade the law governing custodianship of ancient bones. The Corps of Engineers and the Clinton administration supported the Native American claim in what became a long-running lawsuit.{{sfnp|Hitt|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/bestofbestameric0000unse_h1m8/page/256/mode/2up?q=%22corps%22&view=theater 256-257]}}

[[Robson Bonnichsen]] and seven other anthropologists sued the United States for the right to conduct research. The anthropologists won the case in 2002, and on February 4, 2004, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] panel rejected an appeal brought by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] and the Umatilla, [[Colville tribe|Colville]], [[Yakama]], [[Nez Perce tribe|Nez Perce]], and other tribes on the grounds that they were unable to show sufficient evidence of [[kinship]].{{sfnp|Phillips|2005}}<ref>{{Citation |title=Bonnichsen, et al., v. United States, et al |url=http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/repatriation/Gould.2004-02-04.pdf |publisher=[[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)]] |id=no. 02-35994 |date=February 4, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621074338/http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/repatriation/Gould.2004-02-04.pdf |archive-date=June 21, 2010 }}</ref> Furthermore, the presiding judge found that the US government had acted in [[Bad faith#In law|bad faith]] and awarded attorney's fees of $2,379,000 to the plaintiffs.{{sfnp|Preston|2014}}

On April 7, 2005, during the 109th Congress, [[United States Senator|United States senator]] [[John McCain]] introduced an amendment to NAGPRA, which (section 108) would have changed the definition of "Native American" from being that which "is indigenous to the United States" to "is or was indigenous to the United States".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN00536:@@@L&summ2=m&|title=S. 536, 109th Cong., Native American Omnibus Act of 2005 (reported in Senate)|publisher=[[Library of Congress]], US|year=2005|access-date=February 26, 2008|archive-date=November 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122121341/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN00536:@@@L&summ2=m&|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, the 109th Congress concluded without enacting the bill. By the bill's definition, Kennewick Man would have been classified as Native American regardless of whether any link to a contemporary tribe could be found.

===Reburial===
In September 2016, in light of new DNA evidence associating Kennewick Man with modern day Native Americans, the [[114th United States Congress|114th US House and Senate]] passed legislation to return the ancient bones to a coalition of Columbia Basin tribes. The coalition included the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the [[Yakama]] Nation, the [[Nez Perce|Nez Perce Tribe]], the Confederated Tribes of the [[Umatilla Indian Reservation|Umatilla Reservation]], and the [[Wanapum]] Band of Priest Rapids.<ref name="Connelly">{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Joel |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Bones-of-Kennewick-Man-the-Ancient-One-9395924.php |title=Bones of 'Kennewick Man' returning home for burial |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |date=September 28, 2016 |access-date=December 20, 2023}}</ref>

The remains of Kennewick Man were cataloged and removed from the Burke Museum on February 17, 2017. The following day, more than 200 members of five Columbia Plateau tribes were present at a burial of the remains, according to their traditions, at an undisclosed location.<ref name="The Spokesman-Review"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://keprtv.com/news/local/kennewick-man-finally-buried-by-local-tribes|title=Kennewick Man finally buried by local tribes|first=Kristi|last=Paulus|website=keprtv.com|date=February 20, 2017|access-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref>