| This article was published by the Association on American Indian Affairs in Volume 116 of the Association’s Indian Affairs Journal, in the Summer of 1988. We have adjusted some terminology to align with current language. Though this article was written 35 years ago, these issues continue because of the checker-boarded laws that only protect federal or Native Nation lands; state and private lands are often completely unregulated – even when Native bodies are discovered. Thousands of years ago, Native Peoples laid their dead to rest in above- ground ossuaries or in graves, often surrounding them with pottery vessels, necklaces, baskets or other sacred goods. The mourners never worried that the graves would be deliberately disturbed. |  |
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