This conclusion causes problems; there are research suporting that Native Americans may have not been the only inhabitants in the Americas before 1492. Since the 1950s scientsts believe that people arrived here around 13 thousand years ago through a land bridge connecting North America and Siberia (Benedict 92). This alone supports that anybody from North America, including Native Americans, are not indigenous. There are other assumptions on how Native Americans my have not been alone. One theory is that people may have traveled to the Americas by some kind of watercraft or there may have been other land bridges connecting North America and other continents (Benedict 149). This poses the question; maybe Native Americans are not the first, soveriegn peoples of the Americas (Fine 7). Robson Bonnichsen, proffesor of Oregon State University states, “we have always used the term paleo-Indian to describe remains of this era. But, this may be the wrong term [,] maybe some of these guys were really just paleo-American (Fine 149). Paleo-Indians are descendants of NorthEast Asians with skeletal, dental, and soft tissue features of Mongoloids. Mongoloids are a characteristic of a major racial stock native to Asia as classified according to physical features (as the presence of an epicanthic fold) that includes peoples of northern and eastern Asia, Malaysians, Eskimos, and often American Indians (Benedict 146). If this is the case, and Kennewick Man and other human remains are not Native American then none of the five tribes, including the Umatilla can claim him. Native Americans really have no claims to territories or rights of soverignty, if they decide he is not Native American (Fine 149). Although, the Umatilla do not believe this, most Native American scientists are open to different views that they may have not been here alone (Fine 147).

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