Who Owns the Past?(2000)

movie - first aired/released 2000-11-15 - 56 min - audience 7.0

Documentary, History

Directed by George Burdeau, Jed Riffe

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.