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Default The Ongoing Saga of Kennewick Man - The Political and Legal Struggle

THE LAST SURVIVORS

There were isolated groups of Aryans who survived after the ice age on the North American continent, on the Baja Peninsula, on Hokkaido Island (Northern Japan) and North-Western China. (Xinjang Province) These people were melted down and exterminated in a sea of Mongoloid intruders. Some of these Aryan groups made the deadly mistake of mixing with the mongoloid hordes and they found themselves soon outnumbered, some of them died out in everlasting wars, surviving into the Twentieth Century. Their lives and adventures carry a very serious lesson for the Aryan population of North America and Europe - for those who have ears to listen, minds to understand and children to secure a future for.
I am writing a book on this issue and I am posting two of my writings from the book.

George Kadar


The Ongoing Saga of Kennewick Man


“Which Side Are You On?”

As I was working my way through museums and archeological sites in western Nevada, asking questions about skeletal remains that date back to 5,000 years and older, I kept bumping into this question repeatedly: “Which side are you on?”
It was not enough for these people to state that I am looking for the facts, that I want to know who were those people who mysteriously popped up all over the North American continent starting about 12,000 years ago, right after the last ice age. Piercing eyes were searching me from weather-worn faces with steely determination: the eyes of true professionals who have spent long decades searching out the answers to the oldest questions of mankind: Who are we? Where do we come from? Whenever they made rare finds after years of tedious labor and determination their work was interrupted and the fruits of their labor taken from them by corrupt politicians and men in black robes who had no understanding or appreciation of the cultural and scientific importance of the issues at hand; men who were there only to enforce the absurd theory that just about anybody was able to settle on the North American continent in prehistoric times, except Eurasian white men.
The sciences of archeology and anthropology were in a state of denial toward any fact that was pointing to human occupation of the continent before the established time of the Clovis (New Mexico) settlement, 11,000 years ago. Archeological sites were controlled by the “Clovis mafia” to an absurd extent. Often, when a researcher reached strata older than 11,000 years the excavation was stopped because there was “nothing” below the Clovis level. The rules of the Clovis mafia were broken with the extremely well documented excavation of a settlement in Monte Verde, Chile that existed 12,500 years ago, and, today, Stanford University is already rewriting the history books based on the skeletal remains of Kennewick Man and other similar finds.

“No White Man Need Apply”

Dozens of remains and skeletons have been discovered that have no resemblance to today’s Indian population but rather resemble Europeans of our time. “The Skull War” has started. The skeletons have literally started to accumulate in the closet, although many were handed over to different Indian groups for reburial.
With the discovery of Kennewick Man a legal confrontation started costing the federal government and the opposing scientists and organizations many millions of dollars. This is a presently ongoing confrontation. The goals of the scientists are to discontinue the barbaric destruction of rare archeological finds and to secure access to these priceless items for study.
The many different federal agencies and Indian groups are struggling to preserve their privileged positions in the face of overwhelming evidence. The government and the Indian tribes state that any skeleton that predates the year 1492 must be handed over to the Indian tribes for reburial, because it must be a “native American,” meaning (in their terms) an Indian.
In other words, we have arrived at the point where bureaucrats make an arbitrary determination on who was living on the North American continent—since the earliest times—and the government destroys all evidence that contradicts this position. The only information that I have ever found supporting this theory comes from Armin Minthorn, an Umatilla tribal religious leader: “We [Indian medicine men] know what happened 10,000 years ago. . . . It’s a fact to me. . . .” (As quoted from the TBR May/June 1999 editorial.)
Though the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA, 1990) requires the establishment of cultural ties before skeletal remains can be handed over to Indian tribes, in reality this requirement has never been taken seriously. Invaluable remains were handed over to the Indians in an indiscriminate manner, causing severe damage to the scientific community.

In all these cases the basic question was rather simple: Was there a demonstrable cultural, genetic connection between these old remains and the present “native population” or not? The answer was an easy “no” in many cases.
As the endless legal battles were going on over this issue, attorney Mrs. Barron told Judge Jeldrick in early 1998 at a hearing (federal court, Oregon) on the issue of scientific access to Kennewick Man’s skeleton: "Judge Jeldrick" if you do not allow these bones to be studied, you might as well say that no white man need apply.” Regardless, the new information is slowly penetrating the strongholds of political correctness. There is an inevitable change in process. As one Stanford scientist put it in 1999: “We are rewriting the textbooks on the first Americans.” (Newsweek, April 26, 1999, 57.)

A Skull Worth Fighting a War Over

Kennewick Man has generated the most attention in recent years because his skull was recognized from day one as the skull of a Caucasian. Yet he is a relative latecomer to this process that we can rightfully call the War of the Skulls. There are over 50,000 web pages that presently address this issue, reflecting on the large-scale interest worldwide.
Immediately after the bones of Kennewick Man were found, the government agencies involved—from the White House down—had only one thing on their mind: To control and destroy the evidence contradicting their cultivated, artificial, PC image of the American Indian: sitting at the fire, identifying with mother earth, offering symbols of peace and love while hanging around on this continent since the beginning of time. This image is a colossal lie. A lie that has become one of the basic pillars of an artificial world created by the Spielbergs and the “Dreamworks” studios of this country. Something that has started as an “innocent little lie” just like the Holocaust dogma and became a pillar of an unstable social order. A lie that has to be protected at all costs, under all circumstances—just like the Holocaust. Perhaps the best person to offer an early view on Kennewick Man is Dr. James C. Chatters, a local anthropologist who recovered the bones from the Columbia River bed.

Said Chatters:

On July 28, 1996, two young men encountered a human skull in the Columbia River at Kennewick, Washington. That evening I was contacted by Coroner Floyd Johnson, for whom I conduct skeletal forensics. I joined him at the site and helped police recover much of the skeleton. During the next month, under an ARPA permit issued by the Walla Walla District Corps of Engineers, I recovered more wave-scattered bones from the reservoir mud. Throughout the process, I maintained contact with the corps, which interacted with two local Indian tribes.
The completeness and unusually good condition of the skeleton, presence of Caucasoid traits, a lack of definitive native-American characteristics, and the association with an early homestead led me to suspect that the bones represented a European settler. I first began to question this when I detected a gray object partially healed within the right ileum. CT scans revealed the 20- by 54-mm base of a leaf-shaped, serrated Cascade projectile point typical of Southern Plateau assemblages from 8500 B.C. to 4500 B.C. However, similar styles were in use elsewhere in western North America and Australia into the 19th century. Nevertheless, the point raised the possibility of great antiquity, while the skeleton’s traits argued for the early 19th century. We either had an ancient individual with physical characteristics unlike later native peoples’ or a trapper/explorer who had difficulties with “Stone-Age” peoples during his travels. To resolve this issue, the coroner ordered radiocarbon and DNA analyses.


And here is the very same Dr. Chatters again, slightly disillusioned, quoted from media interviews, after the first confrontations with the government in 1998:

The skull was immediately European-like; long, narrow, very constricted behind eyes with a very prominent nose. I immediately got the impression I was dealing with a European—probably an early Kennewick pioneer. I had no idea where this story was going at that point.
The skull, the bridge of the nose is very prominent, the skull very narrow, recedes to the back—the kind I had only seen among the people of western Eurasia. Very long limbs, his lower limb segments quite long compared to the upper; and American Indians tend to be quite the opposite. They’re short limbed.
We’ve got this paradox—Stone-Age object in European man [sic], after the carbon dating reports were in.
With Katie McMillan’s second opinion here, we have the paradox solidified. We’ve got a Stone-Age object in what would seem to be someone who should have arrived one to two hundred years ago.
The size of his nose, the shape of his nose, the prominent high bridge is more typical of peoples of western Eurasia, many of whom are referred to as Caucasoid peoples.

The peopling of the Americas was not a single process. The first people coming here did not come in a single wave of clearly Siberian-type people. It was a rather complex, ongoing process that may have begun with this early Eurasian Homo sapiens. To bring up that fact has brought up a firestorm that I’ve found myself in the middle of.

The easiest way of silencing someone is to call him or her a racist or child molester. Today we have politics that says, “Oh, my God. You shouldn’t say those things about the past.” Or, “You shouldn’t be able to research the remains of past people in the Americas—for political reasons.” But what happens in future generations when that politics is gone and all the skeletons that once told the stories of those people are also gone and back in the ground, destroyed by natural soil processes?
Speaking about the government, Chatters avers:

They’ve done exactly what the Indians have wanted them to do every step of the way. It’s a farce. If it weren’t so damaging, it would be funny. It’s like a Monty Python movie. Everything is out of place.

But is it possible that Kennewick Man was a lonely hunter who came from the Old World to drop in on all these friendly Indian tribes, to stop by to share a pipe and a hearty conversation about mutual respect and tolerance? It is just as likely as a single man could organize and carry out a trip to the Moon in the 20th century. For practical reasons this is impossible. Although it is not possible—at this time—to develop a statistical calculation for establishing a size for the white population groups behind Kennewick Man, common sense tells us that for every skeleton that we have found, that has survived these thousands of years, there must be thousands that have been dissolved in acidic soils or are buried forever.
Kennewick Man could not have been a lonely man crossing from Siberia, he was necessarily part of a tribe and as we will see later—part of a whole white social structure. There were many different skeletal remains located during the 20th century that have been “repatriated” or simply kept in forgotten museum vaults that contradict the politically correct theory on the early population of the continent.

Kennewick Man had plenty of company. There was Buhl Woman of Idaho and Paleo Kid, a 10-year-old from Nevada, and countless others (see below). There was a whole white social order that existed for thousands of years to share in his successes and failures.

As Dr. David Glenn Smith (genetics researcher, University of Claifornia—Davis) has written:

We have a dozen and a half samples that we call Ancient Ones because they are collectively the oldest samples from Native America. Native Americans have, by orthodoxy, been regarded as Asiatic in origin. Kennewick opens up the opportunity or the likelihood, the possibility, that this was not the entire picture; that there has been at least one additional migration from Europe.

Speaking about the U.S. government, Davis wrote:

We were told not only to stop, but to return the material and all the documents, gels. All the writing we had that documented what we had done no longer belonged to us but to the U.S. government. DNA samples were placed within small tubes called Eppindorf tubes and flame sealed so it would be clear if they had been tampered with.

Kennewick Man’s remains were a nearly complete skeleton, missing only the sternum and a few small bones of the hands and the feet. Over 90 percent of the bones were found by Dr. Chatters. There was a stone spear point embedded in the hipbone, carried there by K-Man for many years of his life. It came from the Cascade culture people who were just moving into the area: It may be a sign of ethnic conflict, said Dr. Chatters. These traits are not characteristic of modern American Indians, though many of them are common among Caucasoid peoples, and for this reason Chatters initially thought the skeleton was Caucasian. A fragment of a projectile point was imbedded in the pelvis, which had healed over the wound. At that point, Chatters was quoted as saying in The New York Times, “I’ve got a white guy with a stone point in him. . . . That’s pretty exciting. I thought we had a pioneer.”

K-Man had been “five feet nine or 10 inches tall; he was 40 to 55 years old at the time of his death. He had long narrow skull, a projecting nose, receding cheekbones, a high chin and a square mandible. The lower bones of the arms and legs were relatively long compared to the upper bones,” says Chatters.

Chatters showed some of the bones to physical anthropologist Catherine J. MacMillan, a professor emeritus at Central Washington University. Looking at the skull on July 30, 2003, MacMillan made many of the same observations as Chatters and concurred that the skeleton was Caucasian. CAT scans of the pelvis, however, indicated that the projectile point might be of the Cascade phase, usually dated between circa 7000 and 2500 B.C. “I was stunned when I examined the pelvic bone and the projectile point associated with it,” wrote MacMillan in an August 31 letter to the Benton County coroner, “so I decided to reexamine the skull. My opinion remained the same: Caucasian male.”

Later that month, anthropologist Grover S. Krantz of Washington State University examined the bones. The skeleton “cannot be anatomically assigned to any existing tribe in the area, nor even to the western native American type in general,” he wrote to Chatters on September 2. “It shows some traits that are more commonly encountered in material from the eastern United States or even of European origin, while certain other diagnostic traits cannot presently be determined.” (From: A Battle Over Bones, by Andrew L. Slayman on the Internet.)

On August 30, 1996, four days after the radiocarbon results established the age at 9,200 years, the Walla Walla District Corps of Engineers insisted that all studies be terminated and took possession of the skeleton. These were the early events that started an endless court process, generating over 20,000 pages of paperwork and a large number of frustrated scientists and European-American activists, political and religious. The early, stated intention of the corps was to “repatriate” the remains to five tribes and bands: Umatilla, Yakima, Nez Perce, Wanapum and Colville. Their intention was based on the 1990 NAGPRA.

There are lots of problems with the application of the law in this case: The Indian groups have never established any facts that would demonstrate any cultural or genetic relationship between their present population groups and K-Man—a requirement of the law to receive human remains for repatriation. Although the DNA has been well preserved, they uniformly came out against all DNA examination—placing themselves into an indefensible position of questionable intellectual honesty together with the judges, numerous employees and paid agents of the U.S. federal government because the DNA examination (less than one gram of bone material is needed for a DNA examination) that has been denied would most likely decide the issue of K-Man’s possible relationship to present U.S. population groups.

Later we will see that the uniform position of the Indian tribes is to grab hold of and bury all ancient bones in the United States; this is driven by some rather dark secrets: Some tribes like the Paiutes of Nevada actually believe that they were not the first and only race on the North American continent and it was their own genocidal behavior that has resulted in the disappearance of the ancient white population of North America (see below). It is difficult to calculate the effect that these new facts of history will cause in the present U.S. population. But think about all the endless welfare programs and privileges, the hundreds of Indian-owned casinos propping up in the desert under special permits from the political elite and all those hundreds of millions pumped back into that very same, corrupted-to-the-bone political elite. . . . A structure of corruption and a cash cow have been created here—based on the belief in the privileged social status of the Indian population; the belief that they were the first settlers of this continent.

Follow the Money

In the summer of the year 2000 the interior secretary of the Clinton administration, Bruce Babbitt, was the one to make the decision over Kennewick Man’s future. Two of his agencies were representing different opinions on the issue: The chief archeologist of the National Park Service, Francis McManamon, wanted more scientific tests. But Babbitt’s undersecretary, Kevin Gover, a lawyer and a Pawnee Indian, stated that he: “couldn’t conceive of what possibly could be learned and why it would be significant” to study Kennewick Man. (Jeff Benedict: No Bone Unturned, 232.) Gover was a major fund-raiser for the Clinton administration after casinos were legalized on Indian reservations in 1988. The Umatilla tribe has hired attorneys and lobbyists in Washington, D.C. and became a steady source of money for the politicians. Judge Jelderks from Oregon placed the pressure on Babbitt to make a decision before the end of 2000. Babbitt’s decision was communicated in a seven-page letter to the secretary of the Army on September 21, 2000. Basically Babbitt made the shocking decision that the Indian tribes were culturally affiliated with Kennewick Man based on geographical association and oral tradition. (All important information and scientific testimony on hand contradicted this decision, and approximately a gap of 450 generations were parting the present Indian tribes in question from Kennewick Man, a gap that has never been and can not be bridged by oral tradition.)

Cruz Bustamante, the lieutenant governor of California, a radical Hispanic political activist with prior membership in an openly racist Chicano group that wants to establish an independent Chicano state in the southwest U.S.A., in August of 2003 received a $500,000 donation from the Pechanga Band of Mission Indians who operate casinos in the Temecula, California area, a $300,000 donation from the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in El Cajon, and $2 million from the Vieajas Band of the Kumeyaay Nation who operate casinos in San Diego County. All laws were circumvented, and the courts were happily looking the other way by allowing a loophole. The maximum legal donation is $21,200 from each contributor.
Bustamante was running against Arnold Schwarzenegger for the governorship of Claifornia. Over 60 percent of Bustamante’s donations came from the Indian tribes. Here I am asking the reader to perceive the reality of this process: The judges and the political elite create a new hotbed for corruption and a whole nonproductive industry in California—the “Indian gaming industry.” Then the same judges turn around and provide exemptions from laws so this new “industry” can provide unlimited financing to the very same corrupted politicians who created it, giving a decisive edge in campaign financing against undesirable challengers. A perpetual machine to create corrupted money and pump it into a corrupted political process to rejuvenate and recreate social degeneration. California Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster has ordered Bustamante to pay back over $4 million that he has received from the Indian tribes. The order was issued—rather politely—after Bustamante spent every single dollar (Orange County Register, September 23, 2003).

The Legal Struggle

The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA, of Nevada City, California), under the leadership of Stephen McNallen, can take credit for a lot of good legal work in this case. October 24, 1996 he filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland, Asatru Folk Assembly v. United States, to ensure Kennewick Man is properly studied, prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (which had custody of the skeleton) from turning over the remains to local Indian tribes, and gain custody of those remains for proper burial. The complaint cites violations of constitutional rights and the NAGPRA, and seeks declaratory and injunctive relief. They were very actively engaged in this work for the first three years after the discovery.
Here in their own words is the reason why AFA quit this struggle and what they accomplished:

Finally, it was becoming clear that we would never get justice. The government has held all the cards, from beginning to end. It is all very well to maintain that the legal system is impartial and that everyone has a fair chance in the courtroom, but the truth is that the judicial system exists in a context of power relationships—financial power, political power, social power. We could not win this battle. In a world where the bones of one of Leif Eriksson’s men would be labeled “Native American” there is no hope of a reasonable, logical, fair solution. This scenario is not hyperbole, by the way; it is literally what would happen if a Viking was unearthed, according to the current interpretation of NAGPRA.”

Considering what we had to fight with, we accomplished miracles. The government has spent between one and two million dollars on this case. The plaintiff scientists, with a full staff of legal assistants, have incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses, not counting the donated attorney time. With a few thousand dollars—an amount that many individuals could easily pay out of pocket—we fought this fight for three years. We could not have done it without the tens of thousands of dollars worth of free legal assistance donated by our attorney, Michael Clinton.

Our puny budget allowed us to be a thorn in the side of government arrogance and tyranny. And in this three-year period, Asatru got more inches of column space, more radio and television time, than in the last 30 years, combined. This is an incredible accomplishment. Dollar for dollar, we were outstandingly effective at spreading the word of the [Teutonic] gods and ancestors. Our efforts were not wasted.

Finally, we gave Kennewick Man something he would never have otherwise had—blessings and horns raised in his memory by Northern folk. Without us, he would have only had the misplaced attentions of a stranger people who were probably his blood enemies. Kennewick Man is all about extinction. His people were bred out or wiped out by invaders, and those interlopers are given credit for all his technology, his inventiveness, his hopes and dreams. Kennewick Man was a warning that it can happen to us, too. If you want to honor him, work to ensure that European Americans, and European people generally, do not follow him into oblivion. (If you do not think that such a fate is possible, you haven’t been reading the demographics.)

At about the same time as Asatru’s case was filed eight prominent scientists jointly filed a separate suit on October 16, 1996 in a similar effort to block transfer of the remains to the Indians and secure their right to study the remains. Also, a number of scientists protested the proposed repatriation in letters to the court. The driving force behind the eight scientists was Dr. Douglas Owsley from the Smithsonian, one of the world’s top experts on human skeletons. The federal government used his expertise on top-priority projects like Waco, Texas, after the Branch Davidians were killed in that holocaust. (For the gruesome details see Jeff Benedict’s book: No Bone Unturned, 65.)

The seven who have decided to risk their good names, income and careers with Owsley were: Robson Bonnichsen, Loring Brace, George Gill, Vance Haynes, Richard L. Jantz, Dennis Stanford and Gentry Steele.

Within a few days the Justice Department started to twist arms. Citing federal conflict-of-interest statutes, they stated that it was against the law for Owsley and Stanford (both were federal employees) to sue the Army Corps, and charges would be filed against them. (If the charges were filed both men could lose their jobs as a minimum result.)

On April 6, 1998, with legislation pending before Congress to preserve the site where Kennewick Man was discovered, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dumping tons of boulders and dirt onto it from helicopters, claiming this would preserve the site and prevent erosion. The scientists protested, saying the action makes further study of the area difficult, if not impossible, by contaminating the site with foreign organic matter and possibly crushing delicate objects and artifacts. The AFA denounced the $160,000 helicopter operation as a “carpet bombing” of the site, noting that destroying a site under the guise of preserving it reflects questionable motives.

Here is a quote on the issue from the August 30, 2002 court decision: “Nevertheless, the record strongly suggests that the corps’ primary objective in covering the site was to prevent additional remains or artifacts from being discovered, not to ‘preserve’ the site’s archeological value or to remedy a severe erosion control problem as defendants have represented to this court.” The corps was referring to this process—in a rather cynical manner—as the site being “armored” to provide “permanent protection.”

On this deliberately destructive act one can clearly see the bloody fingerprints of a group that operates from behind the cover of the federal government. From day one it was the clear purpose of this group of individuals to deny the scientific community this extremely rare find, and they did their very best to bring about the destruction of the site and the skeleton.
Questions come to mind about those who were actually setting the guidelines, writing the laws for NAGPRA, pulling the strings from the background. We have a rare glimpse into this shadowy, dark world, thanks to Mr. Timothy McKeown, the team leader of the national implementation of the NAGPRA while working for the National Park Service. McKeown, a Ph.D. in applied cultural anthropology, delivered an enlightening speech at the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington at the “Kennewick Man on Trial” conference, October 23, 1999.

While he was raising his arms toward the skies and turning his face up toward the heavens he said with a major smirk on his face:
“Writing regulations is in many ways akin to being a Talmudic or Biblical scholar. The original text is received unto us from atop the hill. And though it might not be quite perfect—it is good.”
And he finished his cryptic message with the statement: “The regulation writer may clarify the meaning or apply those meanings to new situations, however the original text is sacred.”
This guy really believes that he is delivering us something from above while the results of his work clearly show that he is coming from the opposite direction . . .

Chronology of Events

On Nov. 13, 1997, U.S. Rep. Richard “Doc” Hastings (R-Wash.) pushed a bill to amend NAGPRA and allow study of Kennewick Man bones.
December 10, 1997: Dr. Douglas Owsley’s Kennewick Man inventory report reveals that large fragments of Kennewick Man’s femurs, present when he was turned over to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are now missing. Aside from the skull, the femur bones are most useful in determining genetic links to modern populations. Dr. Owsley described this as a “deliberate act of desecration.” The bones were located several years later in county coroner’s evidence locker. (From the Asatru web page.)
April 1, 1998: Army Corps of Engineers gives Kennewick Man to Department of Interior.
April 6, 1998: The destruction of the Kennewick Man site by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The decision to “armor” the site to provide “permanent protection” against disturbances originated in September 1996. Right from the beginning there was a concern that other human remains, artifacts could be found in the area. The corps told the tribal claimants “that continuing erosion may result in more exposures” at the edge of the Columbia River where the skeleton has been recovered. The corps was given a $200,000 budget to accomplish the task. On the morning of April 6, 1998 helicopters and earth moving equipment moved approximately “2 million pounds of rubble and dirt and topped 3,700 willow, dogwood and cottonwood plantings” on the site. (U.S. District Court, District of Oregon, Judge Jelderks’s Opinion and Order, Civil No. 96-1481-JE, Section 3. Burial of the Discovery Site.) Later, in June of 2001 at the hearing at Judge Jelderks’s courtroom the facts of the White House involvement were documented by Attorney Barren who has represented the scientists in this case. At least six meetings were documented to take place between “high-ranking White House officials” and corps officers, and Col. Curtis was ordered by the White House to cover the site by no later than January 1, 1998.
June 9, 1998: Clinton administration opposes bill to allow study of Kennewick Man.
Sept. 25, 2000: Interior Department rules Kennewick Man bones belong to five American Indian tribes.
July 26, 2001: A Polynesian lays claim to Kennewick Man. It’s rejected a month later.
June 20, 2002: Judge John Jelderks promises Kennewick Man decision by Labor Day.
August 30, 2002: Judge Jelderks issues his decision. Basically he sides with the scientists on the critical issues, namely their right to study the remains, and the necessity to properly preserve the remains. By this time the government has spent several million dollars, trying to deprive a group of scientists of the chance to study a set of 9,000-year-old bones and the connected archeological site. Court blocks study pending appeal.
January 24, 2003: American Indians, police and the Army Corps of Engineers are investigating the discovery of “apparently human remains” near McNary Dam on the Oregon side of the Columbia River. However, a Corps news release Thursday stated that the agency is working with other agencies “to protect the scene, which is consistent with Native American sites in the region.”
September 11, 2003: After the Indian tribes and the U.S. Justice Department has lost and appealed their case, and the group of scientists has won the right to study the bones of K-man—after seven years in the court system—the case was handed over to the U.S. 9th District Court of Appeals. More years of struggle are coming over the obvious fact that K-man had absolutely no relations to the Indian tribes presently residing in the area. Both parties expressed a strong determination to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court—ensuring additional years of happy skull-stealing for the Indians and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and their overseers in D.C.

Western Nevada

The Great Basin Desert of Nevada, more specifically the western Nevada area, is a dry, sandy environment that was covered with lakes and marshes after the last ice age. The area was ideal for the support of human life in prehistoric times, and the dry environment preserved very well an unusually large number of rich sites. The area has produced a number of skeletal remains and skulls that are clearly the remains of Europoid men and have no relations to the present Indian population (Mongoloid in origin). Scientists who do recognize the fact that these skeletal remains have no relation to the present Indian population often state that they closely resemble the Ainu, an indigenous Japanese tribe that still lives in some Japanese islands, but the Ainu tribe is clearly a Europoid group, some with light eyes and hair.
The statistical method used for the racial identification of the skulls is the multivariate analysis: They use sophisticated instrumentation to take 90 different measurements of a skull and plot the measurement characteristic on a scale. Even before these methods were developed an experienced anthropologist could easily select out skulls of different races by simple visual examination, the differences are so obvious.
Based on the present evidence all sites, older than 7,000 years have a high probability of connection with people of Europoid origin. In fact the true question seems to be: When we go back to the 9,000 years level and older: Were there any Indians present in the area or even on the North American continent?

Ancient White Enemy

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was the daughter of a Paiute Indian chief, born “somewhere near 1844” who married a white man and has written her memoirs and published the book: Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). On pages 73, 74 and 75 of the original edition she describes her tribe’s struggles “many hundreds of years ago” with a “tribe of barbarians” who used “to kill and eat” her people. (The stories of people who want to eat the peaceful members of her tribes keep coming up in the book: on page 20 she tells us that she was told as a child that white people who were residing in the area would come and eat her.) She keeps giving us exciting details about the numbers (2,600) of these people (the Paiutes called them Sai-i) who had reddish hair and were a different race, spoke a different language and were engaged in a prolonged battle with her tribe. As the final climax of the confrontation the strangers were cornered in a cave above Humboldt Lake (“on the east side of the lake”) and burned in that cave by the Indians. Mrs. Hopkins had one item as evidence to prove that this story is real: a dress she calls a “mourning dress” that has been handed down in her tribe from “father to son.” The dress was “trimmed with this reddish hair.” At the end of the story Mrs. Hopkins adds proudly: “It is called the mourning dress, and no one has such a dress but my family.” Lovelock Cave—as it is known today still plays a central part in the Paiute Tribe’s mythology and verbal folklore.

Sociolinguistic guidelines show that Mrs. Hopkins’ story has many elements that can be discarded outright, like the “2,600” enemy combatants and the time description of the “three-year” confrontation, while other elements like the “mourning dress” shows that there is reality behind the verbal tradition that she is relaying to us. Whatever is the case her story is deeply imbedded in the verbal history of the Paiute tribe, and there are other Indian tribes with similar beliefs, namely that they exterminated a group that was a foreign race to them. The leaders and speakers of these tribes—almost all of them—have taken an aggressive stand to deny the scientific community any examination of the remains of prehistoric people, and at the same time they state that the only history they recognize as valid is their own verbal history. It seems that at least some of these Indians are simply protecting their privileged positions in our society and are intellectually dishonest in their positions.
Lovelock Cave: (Map Page 35, F-10, Locations in Nevada are specified in the Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, a map by DeLorme Corporation) The cave is about 150 feet long and its widest area is 35 feet wide. There is no question this is the very same cave that has played a central role in the mythology of the Northern Paiutes. The cave is exactly where Mrs. Hopkins describes it in her book, on the east side of Humboldt Lake, about 22 miles southwest of Lovelock.

The following is from the cave’s short history by John T. Reid, a mining engineer In Lovelock (Lovelock Cave by Llewellyn L. Loud and M.R. Harrington, University of California Press, Berkley, California, 1929): In 1887, while chasing wild horses in the area, John T. Reid, a mining engineer in Lovelock, camped there with a few Indians overnight. “Captain Natches,” one of the Indians, told Reid about “the great calamity that had occurred in that cave to another race of people who had been exterminated by the Paiutes.” “I was informed that about four or five generations back the Indians fought to extermination a people who were redheaded and who spoke their own language.” On page 2 of the same publication: “. . . [Y]et an old Northern Paiute man recently died at Stillwater who is said to have taken part in it, and to have had one eye shot out by an arrow in one of the charges on the cave mouth.”

James H. Hart’s account as given to Reid after mining the guano from the cave from the fall of 1911 to the spring of 1912. “All the Indian objects began to appear about four feet below the surface of the guano.” “In the south end of the cave “about 20 feet deep” we unearthed some skeletons. In the north-central part of the cave, about four feet deep, was a striking-looking body of a man “six feet six inches tall” His body was mummified and his hair distinctly red. There was a grass rope about his neck with a knot under the left ear. The rope was about eight feet long.” The other mummies all had red hair—I think there were either four or five.”

In the fall of 1911 while mining about 250 tons of bat guano from this cave numerous, well-preserved ancient objects were discovered. After the mining, the University of California sent L.L. Loud to conduct archeological excavations. In the summer of 1912 Loud recovered about 10,000 specimens from the cave, including “over 1,500 fragments of basketry, and 1,400 of matting,” “The best specimen of the adult mummies was boiled and destroyed by a local fraternal lodge, which wanted the skeleton for initiation purposes.” Some items were moved to different museums in the area.

“A skull owned by North Central Nevada Historical Society (which operates the Humboldt Museum in Winnemucca” is purported to be a Si-te-cah [Sai-i?] and appears to be no larger than a normal skull.” From: Lovelock Cave, Cultural Resources Management Plan (BLM), by Peggy McGuckian, archeologist, April 10, 1986, 22. (Map page 35, F-10, “Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer.”)

Spirit Cave Man: He has a long, narrow face with narrow cheekbones, a narrow chin and a protruding upper jaw. He died in his 40s. Presently the remains are in a sealed box in the possession of the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Nevada. The BLM has an inventory of 145 sets of remains, representing at least 154 individuals, stored there. Many sets of human remains were turned over to the Indians for repatriation. (Lahontan Valley News/Fallon Eagle Standard, August 16, 2000.) The exact location of the cave is not disclosed by local archeologists in order to protect the site. The general location given is a few miles northeast of Hidden Cave or the West Side of the Stillwater Mountain Range.
The cave was excavated first by S.M. Wheeler during the 1940 field season. (Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, spring 1997, 15, 97, 117) Spirit Cave Man was buried under another burial site in split tule and cordage matting. There were also the remains of two additional human cremations carefully placed on top of the other. Both of these bodies were burned to small fragments and dated to over 9,000 years.

1996: The University of California, Davis, in cooperation with the Nevada State Museum, asks permission to do DNA tests and carbon-14 dating tests on 41 sets of human remains held at the museum, including the Spirit Cave Man. Indian leaders oppose the request. They say invasive testing is contrary to their spiritual beliefs and traditions.

1997 (March): The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, representing all Nevada tribal governments, formally claims the Spirit Cave remains for immediate reburial under the 1990 law. (NAGPRA)

2000 (January): The Nevada State Museum withdraws requests for DNA testing and says it will no longer be the lead agency in Spirit Cave scientific studies. State officials assure the tribes that the busts of Spirit Cave Man and Wizards Beach Man won’t be publicly displayed regardless of the outcome of the dispute over the remains.

2000 (July): Scientists from the Smithsonian Institution tell the BLM the remains are very significant in the investigation of ancient North America and should not be reburied without further testing.

2000 (August 15): The BLM announces a preliminary decision that the remains cannot be linked to the Paiutes or any group of present-day people. The remains will continue to be federal property. State BLM chief Bob Abbey says no requests for invasive testing will be considered until the Department of the Interior decides on regulations for dealing with unaffiliated remains that fall under the 1990 law.

Hidden Cave Tour and Petroglyphs Park: The Hidden Cave “Interpretive Trail” visitation is organized by the BLM on the second and fourth Saturday of each month. The tour begins at the Churchill County Museum in Fallon at 9:30 a.m. The museum is located at 1050 S. Main Street. Hidden Cave was excavated in 1940, 1951 and 1979-80. When I was taking the tour we have received a number of well-done, informative flyers, our guide was a sympathetic park ranger around 30 years of age who had very detailed information on all living and dead things that has ever existed in the area but when asked about human remains found at the site he suddenly started to show the advanced symptoms of severe Alzheimer disease and refused to answer any questions. (It was like his job depended on the issue—and very likely it did.) (Map P 42, C-10)
Stillwater Marshes, Nevada: As the water levels slowly were lowered by the new weather conditions following the last ice-age the surface of marshes and lakes was slowly shrinking, compressing the relatively large human population and pressing them into competition for the best living environment. One of the last places where today there is a year-round lake in the area is Stillwater in western Nevada. In 1985 unusually high water levels washed off the topsoil around the lake and the marsh and exposed thousands of human bones, gravesites, house floors, artifacts etc. People flying over the area in small planes have noticed thousands of bones, and many home sites sticking out of the mud. In all 45 sites were located within a six-square-mile area on a chain of islands and, ismuthses. They found circular home sites, some of them as large as 800 square feet. They have found a wheel-like clay disk with a central perforation. (The Paiutes are not known to have made pottery vessels before they were exposed to white people.) A deal was made with the Indian tribes: The bones that were 50 percent below ground were left there; those that were 50 percent above were collected. A total of 4,026 human remains, belonging to about 140 humans, were collected and, after almost no examination, all was handed over to the Indians for reburial. Six individual carbon datings were performed on this incredibly rich site—meaning that the traditional Indian attitude was ruling the day at the time: “We do not want to know.“ The bones, based on the associated items they were found with, were estimated to be up to 5,000 years old. (Many 10,000-year-old skeletons originally were estimated to be around 2,000 years of age at the time they were found.)

Ann Raymond, archeologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Stillwater Management area, said: “[T]hese people were quite tall, up to six feet, while Paiutes tend to be shorter.”
The residents of this marsh area also developed food storage technics, never used by the local Indian tribes. There is no doubt this area has an unusually rich concentration of prehistoric dwelling sites, waiting to be explored. (Map 43, A-10; 44. A-1.)

Wizard Beach Man. This skull was found in the mudflats of Pyramid Lake by avocational archeologist Peter Ting during a low lake stand in 1968 and carbon-dated to 9200 years. The skull was well preserved by calcification, and is a good subject for future DNA examinations unless the federal government and the Indians can destroy this rare item, presently in a sealed box in the possession of the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Nevada. The Paiute Tribe is claiming it for reburial. This skull of a male in his 30s, with Europoid features was dated to be between 9,225 and 9,515 years old. (Map 34, D-3.)

(Kennewick) Man’s Best Friend Comes to the Rescue.

There were a large number of skeletal remains of dogs located in the western Nevada area. The state museum has partial remains of about 27 dogs. All remains were found in the geographic area that was inhabited by the Lovelock Culture. Crypt Cave Dog was found in the 1950s in northern Nevada, a rare complete skeleton with remains of yellow hair. Crypt Cave Dog was carefully buried in a valuable fishnet about 6,360 years ago. (Somebody must have loved this pup; he was kept alive years after he suffered a broken rear leg.) There were five remains of dogs that were older, one of them dated 9,500 years B.C. The general assumption was that these dogs must have been bred from the local wolf population, just like Eurasian dogs were bred from the Eurasian wolf population. Nobody has paid to much attention to these poor puppies, they were not incorporated in NAGPRA and neither did they receive special civil rights protections. There was nobody to stop the scientists, who had an easy run, doing DNA tests on them left and right. The results were presented at the 5th International Ancient DNA Conference by Jennifer Leonard in a lecture: “Origin of American Dogs, a separate domestication?”
The accumulated DNA evidence clearly shows that all the dogs examined had a close relationship to the Eurasian wolf and no relationship to American wolves, meaning that they must have been brought over by the incoming waves of immigrations to the New World, by the very same tribes who have left us Kennewick Man.

Stone Age Cultural War?

Wherever we go in western Nevada we will find rocks, covered with petroglyphs. Some of the local archeologists believe these unique symbols were left behind by the mysterious early inhabitants of the area based on geographical associations. For example just a very short distance from the Hidden Cave area there are a large number of rocks covered with petroglyphs at Grimes Point. At this time there are no dependable ways to establish the approximate time of the origin of these works. However, in the January 3, 2003 issue of Science News there was an article on a possible new method to calculate the age of petroglyphs by measuring the iron and manganese component in the “desert varnish” deposited in time on the surface of the petroglyphs (using X-ray fluoroscopy).

The Pebble Mound Mystery was brought to this author’s attention first by The Nevada Archaeologist (Vol. 3, No. 1, 1981) and some printed copies of pictures from 2001. It seems that larger rocks, covered with petroglyphs, were broken into fist-sized pieces and left in the desert, most likely at their original locations. These pebble mounds can be found at many different locations, spread out in western Nevada. Some of the pebble mound sites were occupied between 11,100 and 9,000 years ago, based on the tools recovered at the sites. It did take considerable effort to break up these rocks into small pieces—the most likely reason seems to be that one population group was trying to erase even the memory of an another group—a form of Stone-Age book burning, cultural war—if you like.

(The October and the November 1997 issues of THE BARNES REVIEW have excellent articles on prehistoric rock structures apparently built by Caucasians entitled “The Mysterious Megaliths of New England.”)
Black Desert Fabric Samples: Diamond plaited fabrics, a technique unique to the Lovelock culture, have been found all over in western Nevada. All Nevada diamond plaited fabrics have been carbon-dated to over 9,000 years of age. The technic is far more sophisticated than those used by the Indians in later centuries. It involves a set of wooden stakes used as a frame on the ground, that helps the maker to create a larger, more even, denser split tule and cordage matting. The local Indian population had never used this sophisticated technique. Eugene Hattori, a resident archeologist at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, and Catherine Fowler were working to compare these mat samples to woven textiles in other parts of the world.

Willow Creek Site: Located in the Modoc National Forest, outside Susanville in northeastern California, managed by the BLM. A number of petroglyphs were found here, symbols with astronomical meanings. The site has been partially built, manipulated so the user can predict certain important celestial events very precisely. (With the help of this site the user can track the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year cycle of the moon.)

Browns Valley Male: a male, dated to 9,710 years ago, no relation to the Indians. Buried by the Sioux on October 2, 1999.

Buhl Woman: Found in a rock quarry in Buhl Idaho, in 1989, died in her teenage years about 12,800 years ago. No study was done before she was reburied by the Shoshone Bannock tribes in 1991. Based on photographic evidence Dr. Owsley has calculated the skull’s dimensions and concluded that she had no relation to the Indian population.

Grimes Point Child: A 10-year-old girl who died about 10,800 years ago. Presently at the Carson City Museum, claimed by the Paiute.

Minnesota Woman: From Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, 1931. Dated: 6,775 years B.C. No relation to Native Americans. DNA test was successful. The Sioux Tribe in South Dakota buried her on October 2, 1999.

The Hour Glass Cave Male: About 9,140 years old, found in the Colorado Rockies in 1988. No research was done. Reburied by the Southern Ute Tribe.

Winnemucca Lake: Dry lakebed northeast of Reno. Walter Cronberg discovered a cave high up in the hills, overlooking the dry lakebed in February of 1947. (Nevada Sunday Morning, Aug. 1, 1948) They found the caves “on the southeast fringe of mountains that circle the dry lakebed.” About 30 caves had been explored in the area. They have found “two complete skulls,” “10 or 15 thigh bones and fragments of other skulls” and “numerous artifacts.”
The caves were explored again by Dr. Richard Shutler in 1961. (Nevada State Journal, July 23, 1961) Large number of items recovered from ten different caves. (Map 34. F-5.)

“Paleo Kid.” The bones of a child, presently in the possession of the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, the 10,600-year-old “Paleo Kid,” a girl nine or 10 years old with the same long skull shape as Spirit Cave man, also has a Carabelli’s cusp, a Caucasoid trait, discussed by Dr. Chatters.

On June 4, 1963, A local newspaper in western Nevada declared G.C. Rollins of Lovelock, Nev., “Mr. Treasure Hunter of 1963” for finding a “mummified man, which Columbia University has carbon-dated as being 35,000 years old.”


Conclusions:

As a final conclusion one cannot fail to understand that hidden hands are constantly working to manipulate, to change, to destroy the history of this land when it does not conform to their desires.
If they are successful we will lose a chance for the examination of this extremely rare phenomenon; an incalculable loss for future generations of scientists who will surely have new, improved methods to examine these remains.
In the words of physical anthropologists Douglas W. Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution and Richard L. Jantz of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “if a pattern of returning [such] remains without study develops, the loss to science will be incalculable and we will never have the data required to understand the earliest populations in America.”
The present reality is that this pattern has been already established and we are living in a dark age where historical facts are manipulated, selected and destroyed by a political elite, depending on the need of the day. v

REFERENCE SITES, SOURCES:

THE BARNES REVIEW, May/June 1999.
Jeff Benedict: No Bone Unturned, Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.
U.S. District Court, District of Oregon, Judge Jelderks’s Opinion and Order, Civil No. 96-1481-JE.
The Nevada Archaeologist (Vol. 3, No. 1, 1981).
www.kennewick-man.com.
Andrew L. Slayman, www.archaeology.org/9701/etc/specialreport.html.
NAGPRA: www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/MANDATES/INDEX.HTM.
Pictures of bones of K-Man: www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/walker.htm.
Asatru Folk Assembly: http://www.runestone.org/flash/home.html.
www.centerfirstamericans.com.
www.friendsofpast.org.
www.arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/links/arc6.htm.
Lovelock Cave by Llewellyn L. Loud and M. R. Harrington, University of California Press, Berkley, California, 1929.
www.seattleastro.org/webfoot/jul01/minutes.htm.
Life Among the Paiutes, Sarah W. Hopkins, 1994, Univ. of Nevada Press.
STATE BY STATE
California: Mostin site, 8,470 years B.C.
Montana: Anzick site, human skeletal material, dated 10,680 years.
Nevada: Locations in Nevada are specified on the “Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer,” DeLorme Corp.
Texas: Midland dated 11,600 years.
INTERNATIONAL
Russian, Japanese and American scientists working at a very rich site in the Vladivostoc/Ustinovka area that is 25,000 years old, showing similarities to the New World sites, only half that age. (Vladivostok News, November 13, 1997, issue #154.
 
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