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Indian Country

December 2023
1min read

Bordewich laments: “Tribal claims on ancestral bones and artifacts were depleting many of the most valuable anthropological collections in the country.” His choice of the word valuable is revealing. Valuable to whom? I have yet to hear reports of native people desecrating the “valuable” graves of their white neighbors under the guise of anthropology.

Kathy Roth Clarks Summit, Pa.

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