Grave Matters
lvi In response, Tom Hannah threatened legal action for “accusations which attack my character and integrity.” Letter from Albert E. James to Claudia Israel, director, Clarke Historical Museum, March 10, 1994; from Tom Hannah to Albert James, March 30, 1994, CCP.
lvii Mel Lavine, “Ancient Tombs Found On Humboldt Bay!” Humboldt Times, November 1, 1953; Stuart, Zoomorphs, 7.
lviii See, for example, several photographs of skulls and mug shots of living Indians in Edward Gifford’s California Anthropometry (1926)
lix Henry Palm, “U. C. Unearths Relics of Odd Indian Tribe,” San Francisco Examiner, September 12, 1948.
lx Lavine, “Ancient Tombs.”
lxi Robert F. Heizer, “A Question of Ethics in Archaeology - One Archaeologist’s View,” The Journal of California Anthropology 1 and 2, 1974, 146.
lxii Letter from Cecile Clarke to B. H. Hathaway, February 24, 1932, and from Hathaway to Clarke, March 4, 1932, CCP.
lxiii Anderson, Barbour, and Whitworth, 18; Kroeber, Handbook, 883.
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Comment / By dc / June 19, 2009, 12:39 a.m.
Grew up in Eureka - my neighbor when i was a kid was born in Eureka about 1880 and was raised on a farm on what’s now 6th & C. She remembered walking on Gunther Island as a kid and picking up baskets and beads “just laying on the ground” - she still had them when she told me about this in the late 60’s early 70’s. Thanks for writing about this and doing so much research. People need to know.
Comment / By mystified / June 19, 2009, 10:18 p.m.
This is a very heartbreaking story. It is still shocking, even though I have known about some of what happened and each time I hear more, I feel sick inside. Although this has moved me to tears, I want to tell you how much I appreciate you writing this story, Tony Platt. I did not know this story, and it deepens the wounds.
The same thing is still going on, with all the unjust bloody murders “in the name of freedom” in places like Viet Nam and Iraq, and now Pakistan and Afghanistan. Oh, is North Korea next? This bloody cycle has to end, before the healing can begin.
The Native American’s took care of this land for thousands of years. Instead of closing the State Parks, let the Native American people who are decedents of this travesty be trained to take care of the State Parks.
On behalf of all white people who did these terrible things, may I personally extend a heart-felt apology for this travesty done to all Native American Peoples.
In the paper copy of this story I read that Clark Museum says, “It appears that the Clarke is not technically required to comply with NAGPRA because the museum has received no direct federal funding since the passage of that law., and goes on to say they are in the first step…ENOUGH EXCUSES ALREADY… why say such a thing??? Just say you are deeply sorry and return things, and leave all that legal mumbo jumbo out as it seems to lack compassion.
Comment / By turtlehead / June 20, 2009, 10:47 a.m.
Thank you Tony Platt. Thank you North Coast Journal.