
Skeletons In The Closet
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The Roots of Archaeology
Chip calwell is an anthropologist. He wrote a book called plundered skulls and stolen spirits, inside the fight to reclaim native america's culture. A group of seminole indians have been trying to get about 15 hundred native remains that were taken from florida back to florida. And those remains were in the possession of the smithsonia national museum of natural history yet. In order to understand this fight, we oing to look at how native remains ended up in the possess of the natural history museum in the first place.
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