Movie Description

Who Owns the Past?

(2000)

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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Original TitleWho Owns the Past?

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2000-11-15

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 00h 56m

Production CompaniesJed Riffe Films

Genres

  • Documentary
  • History