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Why Native Americans do not separate religion from science

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Research Associate of Women's Studies, Environmental Studies and Native American Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University
imageA Menominee Tribal biology class in Green Bay, Wisconsin.U.S. Department of Agriculture Follow, CC BY

Last year five Native American tribes in Washington state managed to repatriate the remains of the “Ancient One,” as they called him, or “Kennewick Man,” as scientists called him.

For the tribes, the Ancient One is to be...

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