Grave Matters: The Controversy Over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past Muscogee (Creek) And she has always known

And she has always known that in this she is not alone

but melded to imagination

O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe)

Grover tells the story of her ancestors' arrival at the American Fur Post in far western Duluth more than two hundred years ago

even laughter and mutual affection – are key to our shared futures here in North America

Grave Matters: The Controversy Over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past Muscogee (Creek) And she has always knownHow do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them? Whether by curious Boy Scouts and "backyard archaeologists" or competitive collectors and knowledge hungry anthropologists, the excavation of Native remains is a practice fraught with injustice and simmering resentments. Grave Matters is the history of the treatment of Native remains in California and the story of the complicated relationship between