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Artifacts and Native Burial Rights: Where do We Draw the Line?
With the advent of human migration across the globe, many groups have found favorable environments where others have previously been. With this trend and the growth of the human population, it is inevitable that remains of those who passed on will be left behind and found by those who follow. What to do with these remains and what amount of "respect" constitutes proper action is a recent dilemma in burial culture and protocol. Should secondary groups be allowed to remove or relocate buried remains? For those who already have removed such remains, should these items be repartitioned to their original place of rest, to the families who claim them or are the current possessors of these remains the true owners of these items?

Written by Jacqueline Van Blarcon and first published in Volume 5, Number 1 of Hohono in 2007