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Arguments Against The Kennewick Man

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With both cases of the Kennewick Man and Elgin Marbles, there is controversy on who should own the artifacts or sites that was found. There are good claims from both sides on who gets to keep it. The arguments goes from culture and tradition, property, history, and science. In this prompt, the Kennewick Man is the main focus. Some Native American tribes, scholars, and the federal government are fighting for right to own the remains. But the question is, who really owns it? The government’s argument is that the Kennewick Man remains was found on federal property of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering. Scholars claim that since they discovered it and the remains should be analyzed for research and be displayed in a museum for educational purposes. …show more content…

While the argument of the government is justified because it’s the law that whatever that is on a government’s land is now the property of the government, same goes with private property. Also, the government is the one that has the power to control anything. But that doesn’t mean they should keep the Kennewick Man since what will the government do with a skeletal remain? The Native Americans also have a kind of law known as the “Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) which allows the tribes to keep or get back any artifacts or skeletal remains that may be sacred or cultural to them, but they must provide evidence that the things belongs to them. To prove that the Kennewick Man was one of their ancestors, testing must be made to determine whether or not the tribe does have any affiliation with the remain. It’s also up to them if they give permission

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