Who Owns the Past?
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Who Owns the Past?

DirectorsJed Riffe, George Burdeau

7.0 / 10
2000
56 min
DocumentaryHistory

This documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe, tells the story of how the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and Native peoples over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indigenous lands.

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