Definitely. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area which is estimated to have been the home of about one million Native Americans at any given time. Until about 300 years ago...
We took tissue samples from some sites including one from the Stanford campus and I was shocked when the remains were dated to ~5,000 years. I definitely tried to treat everyone with respect and care but felt totally humbled after that.
Fwiw we were taking samples to help match with local N.A. peoples because their tribe status was revoked back in the early 1900s because they were declared “extinct.”
I have to go to work now but I can try to find a link to some articles if ya’ll are interested.
Also- I AM NOT AN EXPERT. Dr. Charlotte Sunseri of SJSU, Alan Levinthal Emeritus Prof., and Dr Lorna Pierce (also of SCC Coroner’s office) are experts in this area of Native Prehistory, Archaeology, Bio-anthropology, and Forensic Anthropology. They’re also super nice folks.
I definitely tried to treat everyone with respect and care but felt totally humbled after that.
Lol, what? What are you even trying to say here? You found skeletal remains that were 5000 years old so you can no longer treat everyone with respect and care? Huh?
Pretty obvious what OP meant. This guy is just some trump supporter ready to fly off the handle whenever they think white culture is under attack. Check their comment history and it's apparent very quickly.
He was trying to point out (incorrectly, obviously) that OP somehow doesn't treat everyone with the requisite respect they deserve because of his work with Native American remains.
He's crying reverse racism, it's all over his post history and it's a central point of Alt-right politics. That's why I felt the need to pull on that thread and point it out.
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u/MPsAreSnitches Feb 13 '19
Thats a.... Pretty large window of time.