7 Documentary History

Who Owns the Past?

2000
Trailer
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.
Release Date
2000-11-15
Status
Released
Original Title
Who Owns the Past?
Runtime
56 min
Original Language
EN
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Jed Riffe Films
Overview
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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