Editing Kennewick Man (section)

===Scientific initiatives===
There have been three major scientific initiatives to study and report on Kennewick Man.<!-- Citation not required. Three paragraphs follow, with the three studies. Please do not make this into a "list" (* bullets) per [[WP:PROSE]] -->

Between 1998 and 2000, the Department of the Interior and National Park Service, in cooperation with the Corps of Engineers, the federal agency responsible for the Kennewick remains, conducted a series of scientific examinations of the remains. Eighteen nationally and internationally recognized scientists and scholars conducted a variety of historical and scientific examinations, analyses, tests, and studies.<ref name="McManamom">{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/archeology/kennewick/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820092634if_/http://www.nps.gov/archeology/kennewick/index.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |title=Kennewick Man |work=NPS Archaeology Program |editor-first=F. P. |editor-last=McManamom |date=May 2004 }}</ref> Nevertheless, the "analysis was quickly suspended by the U.S. government" because of the controversy over custodianship of the remains.{{sfnp|Chatters|2000}}

After the suspension of the government studies, anthropologists sued the government, and in 2002 won the right to study the bones. For the next six years beginning in 2005, Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution coordinated more than a dozen experts, who analyzed the bones in numerous ways including forensic anthropology, physical anthropology, and isotope chemistry. Their report was published in 2014, in the book titled ''Kennewick Man, The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton''.{{sfnp|Owsley |Jantz |2014}}

In 2015, a paper in ''Nature'' titled "The Ancestry and Affiliations of Kennewick Man" analyzed ancient DNA from Kennewick Man, and determined he is associated with modern day Indians.<ref name="Rasmussen" />