Who Owns the Past?
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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Who Owns the Past?
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
Status
Released
Release Date
Nov 15, 2000
Runtime
0h 56m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original Title
Who Owns the Past?
Production Companies
Jed Riffe Films
Director
George Burdeau
Description
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.
