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Kennewick Man  by Ed Hagen last modified May 27, 2009 03:16 PM
Statement by the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists on the Secretary of Interior's Letter of 21
September 2000 Regarding Cultural Affiliation of Kennewick Man
20 October 2000  The American Association of Physical
Anthropologists (AAPA), the largest professional scientific
organization devoted to the study of physical anthropology in
the United States, was part of the coalition of Native American
and scientific groups that worked for the passage of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Since
the passage of the act a decade ago, the AAPA has continued to
support NAGPRA's key goal of ensuring that culturally
affiliated, federally recognized Native American groups are
allowed to make decisions regarding the disposition of their
ancestral remains.  The AAPA supports the rights of Native
Americans to claim human remains and funerary objects in case