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Sen. Murray submits bill to return ancient bones to tribes
That makes Kennewick Man
one of the oldest and most complete
skeletons found in North America,
said Murray, D-Washington.
In June, new genetic evidence
determined the remains were
closer to modern Native Ameri-
cans than any other population in
the world.
Murray’s bill would transfer
control of the remains from the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
to the Washington Department of
Archaeology and Historic Preser-
vation, which would return them
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — The
ancient skeleton of Kennewick
Man should be returned to a
group of Columbia Basin tribes,
according to a bill introduced
Thursday by U.S. Sen. Patty
Murray.
Experts believe the remains,
discovered in 1996 near the
Columbia River in Kennewick,
Washington, are at least 8,400
years old.
to the tribes.
“After nearly two decades of
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studying, it’s well past time to
return these prehistoric remains to
their rightful place,” Murray said.
“This is simply the right thing to
do.”
Several area tribes have joined
together in calling for Kennewick
Man’s return to his descendants.
They include the Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation,
Confederated Tribes and Bands
of the Yakama Nation, Nez Perce
Tribe, Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Reservation, and
Wanapum Band of Priest Rapids.
“As indigenous people, our
relationship to these lands goes
back to time immemorial,” JoDe
Goudy, chairman of the Yakama
Nation, said in a news release.
“What more can be revealed
through additional studies that
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concluded that Kennewick Man
was Native American and had
Biologists fear repeat of 2002 salmon kill
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Wandering wolf has at least 2 new pups
fed by cool springs, where the
crowding contributes to the
spread of the disease.
The river is running
GRANTS PASS — The
drought in the West could slightly higher than it was in
be creating conditions in the 2002 but this year’s projected
Klamath River straddling return of 120,000 chinook is
Oregon and California for a lower than average.
The Yurok and Hoopa
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claimed tens of thousands of Valley tribes have called
adult salmon, biologists said. on the U.S. Bureau of
Low water and warm Reclamation to send extra
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But there is little avail-
spring chinook, allowing
infections by parasites as the able in the drought and any
salmon crowd together in releases are being saved for
the most effective times.
cool water pools.
“At this point, we are just
A similar fate is expected
for fall chinook that will start really watching the situa-
tion,” said bureau spokes-
arriving in coming weeks.
“The risk factors this woman Erin Curtis. “It is
year are piling up,” Mike the fourth year of severe
Belchick, biologist for drought. Water supplies are
the Yurok Tribe, said very limited and the situation
Wednesday.
The
tribe is not good.”
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nies.
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in salmon earlier in the year able to release extra water
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lethargic to swim upstream, the California Department of banks of the Klamath River near the mouth of the river
so they congregate in pools Fish and Wildlife.
in Klamath, Calif.
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Associated Press
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that Oregon’s famous wandering wolf, OR-7, has
fathered at least two new pups.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist John
Stephenson said Thursday that brings to seven the
number of wolves in the Rogue pack, which lives on the
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in the Cascades
of southwestern Oregon. That includes three pups from
last year.
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July, but didn’t know how many.
OR-7 became famous as his GPS collar tracked his
travels across Oregon and into Northern California in
search of a mate. That collar’s batteries have since died,
and biologists have been unable to replace them.
Meanwhile, another collared wolf from OR-7s
Imnaha pack has come to southwestern Oregon, and is
living east of Klamath Marsh.
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HUNTINGTON (AP) — The four lanes of Interstate
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that has scorched 19 square miles.
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winds pushed it to the west edge of the freeway, about
two miles from Huntington.
Larry Moore, spokesman for the BLM’s Vale
District, tells the Baker City Herald that crews used the
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to protect Huntington and limit damage to protected
sage-grouse habitat.
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east of Canyonville; it is now 20 percent contained.
Port of Vancouver pays $45,000 to settle records lawsuit
VANCOUVER, Wash.
(AP) — The Port of
Vancouver has agreed to pay
$45,000 and has released
further details about plans
for an oil-by-rail terminal
to settle a public records
lawsuit.
The
Clark
County
Natural Resources Council
sued last May after the
port released a copy of
Vancouver Energy’s lease
that the group considered
to be improperly redacted.
The port agreed to lift all
but three of the redactions
as part of a settlement
announced Thursday.
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a partnership between oil
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planning to build a major
terminal for receiving oil
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details in the 429-page lease
show Vancouver Energy
could expand or build a
second oil-by-rail facility if
it handles more than 400,000
barrels of crude, on average,
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Basin tribes, a federal judge ruled
in 2004 in favor of a group of
scientists who wanted to continue
studying the skeleton.
The bones since 1998 have
been stored at the Burke Museum
of Natural History and Culture
on the University of Washington
campus in Seattle.
In June, a new analysis
concluded that the bones of
Kennewick Man were Native
American and that he had a direct
link to Columbia Basin tribes.
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