The Color of Bones

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The rectangle, Buck explained, was aligned according to the trajectories of the stars. Buck said that the Wanapum had not suffered inordinately from white attention. His people had still been fishing for salmon and using buildings made from reeds as recently as the 's. Buck said that the Priest Rapids area "seemed like there was nothing, desolated, to people who come here.

Wasn't good for anything. But to the Indian it was beautiful and had everything he needed and she needed. When non-Indians finally took an interest in the remote area, the Wanapum faced a choice. You did this to me, you did that to me; that's why I'm the way I am. But our elders, my parents -- my dad, he spoke a little bit of English; he could only write his name.

But he had two hands, two feet; he was willing to learn; he was willing to work. When we were growing up, he encouraged us to learn your language, to learn what your livelihoods were.

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He said, 'You have to have a friendship relationship with the people in order to stay here. The scientific wish to have control over Kennewick Man does not augur well for that friendship relationship. Buck places Kennewick Man within a tradition of ancestors whose rest has been disturbed by people with college degrees, people who believe their own understanding of life is both superior to that of the Indians and free of self-interest, people who have arrived from time to time to "stir around our remains, like they don't mean anything. Then they go back, and we pick up the pieces with a heavy heart and tears in our eyes.

And we ask the Creator that he might forgive those ones that do that, for they must not know any better. In his hesitant English, Buck tried to explain that his tribe's land had in it words from the Creator, and that the land was the means for God to speak to humans. One means for humans to speak to their Creator was by returning themselves to the earth. Being buried gave people a permanent place in this conversation with forces greater than they. And their heart returned, and their life and spirit went on.

But it's of no significance to the nonunderstanding race.

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But yet it holds the sacredness of the words that were passed through their generation, that are still living today. Those words were passed through those people that had no significance. He, too, was giving himself back. The conversation among people, land, Creator and ancestors is open-ended and not obviously purposeful. You walk outside, and you listen to what the water is telling you. You listen to the things that are around you. And you interpret that earth.

They looked different than they had before we spoke, more complexly surfaced and more beautiful.

I knew I was a member of the "nonunderstanding race. So we were still stuck in races, Buck and I. But the mountains did look different now. The Asatru tribalists have withdrawn their suit.

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If the government refuses, Judge Jelderks may well open the case for trial. He has indicated in court papers that he would like the parties to argue before him what "indigenous" means, since that is apparently, in his opinion, key to applying Nagpra. It is a different way of phrasing the question, What is an Indian?

The scientists' opponents in the Kennewick case also recognize the problem of evidence. These studies, still incomplete, seem to lean toward the possibility that there is a plausible affiliation between the dead man and one or more modern tribes. Of course, some of these studies have themselves relied on earlier studies performed on the very bones that could, under Nagpra, be given to native tribes and perhaps buried.

The trail of evidence does not stop with bones. Judge Jelderks recently gave the government six more months to do DNA testing. This raises the possibility of having to extract comparative DNA samples from other bones say, a verified year-old Umatilla skeleton that has not yet been repatriated and perhaps to get DNA from representatives of the five claimant tribes, preferably people without an Anglo-Irish-French great-grandparent. Beyond that, on a global scale the DNA databases are also quite incomplete.

For example, recent research indicates that Europeans and Native Americans share a distinctive genetic feature, but there has not been enough sampling of north Asian people to determine whether this trait came to North America by that route. So someone will have to go to eastern Siberia and persuade people to give up DNA.

From a thoroughgoing scientific viewpoint, there is no dividing line between today and 9, years ago. This is true for many Indians too, but they tend to communicate with their dead without digging them up. One might have thought that ancient bones could be bracketed as prehistory and removed from contention.

If the scientists most actively seeking those bones weren't so interested in finding non-Indian, pre-Indian Native Americans, matters might indeed have turned out different. But ancient bones are of interest because of what they might tell us about ourselves. It isn't their remoteness that fascinates, but their potential for closeness. We look for what we might have in common with them.

This probably explains why even some scientists have looked at Kennewick Man and seen a white person. They find a connection by that means. Race, however, is our category, not Kennewick Man's. The problem is that most human groupings, including races, are highly subjective. Looking for objective scientific answers to subjective human questions -- like what a Native American is or the meaning of ancestry -- can distort both science and humans.

Tribes already depend on anthropologists and historians in order to secure federal recognition. The Kennewick Man case raises the prospect of their needing to depend in the future on geneticists or perhaps craniometrists. For a federal judge to be sifting through the current science in order to reach a "final" answer to the question, What does indigenous mean? Which helps to explain why the participants in the story have so often reached for racial language -- so curious, so arbitrary -- to try to make sense of it.

Some parts of this site work best with JavaScript enabled. Menu Share This Page. The Color of Bones How a 9,year-old skeleton called Kennewick Man sparked the strangest case of racial profiling yet. As the forensic anthropologist looked closer, he found other clues: Malcomson is the author of "One Drop of Blood: Return to Book Page. Twelve year-old Derby Shrewd lives in a divided town. Lights live on the Northside of the Line, Darks live on the Southside. Hillside has been that way ever since the Line appeared naturally from the ground, much like a spring welling up from deep inside the earth.

Now the Line controls the town, keeping Hillside separated, zapping those who come near it and killing those Twelve year-old Derby Shrewd lives in a divided town. Now the Line controls the town, keeping Hillside separated, zapping those who come near it and killing those who dare cross it.

But when Derby, a Northsider, finds a pile of bones stacked on the Line, he sets out to uncover the person's identity.

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While doing so, he befriends a Southside girl and soon begins to challenge the Line and the town's rules. And then, before he can turn back, Derby goes too far. Paperback , ages , pages.

The Color of Bones by Tracy Edward Wymer

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Color of Bones , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Apr 29, Shannon O'Donnell rated it really liked it. I knew I'd love his book before I read it, and I was right. Just the blurb was enough to suck me in. The Line through the middle of town is a force to be reckoned with. Tracy Wymer does an incredible job of actually making The Line a powerful--and believable--main character. I especially love the story's prose--so wonderful. The words and the story flow like water, and the originality will keep you spellbound.

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Derby and Zora completely captured my heart. It's a fast read, and one I'm sure you'll I knew I'd love his book before I read it, and I was right. It's a fast read, and one I'm sure you'll enjoy. Dec 20, Michael C rated it it was amazing. A MUST read for all young readers!!!! Wymer "hit one out of the park" with "The Color of Bones.

May 08, Laurie Cameron rated it it was amazing. On his way home from school twelve year-old Derby comes across a pile of human bones with the skull sitting on the very top. He soon learns that there is no way to remove the bones; the sheriff has already tried. The line separates the north side of town from the South side of town and woe be it to anyone who tries to cross from one side to the other.

Derby, son o On his way home from school twelve year-old Derby comes across a pile of human bones with the skull sitting on the very top. Derby, son of the mayor on the north side, is a likable kid with a healthy respect for authority. It is a fast paced and beautifully written book. It is suitable for all middle grade readers.

Jun 06, TKieninger rated it really liked it. This book is a little gem. The Line is an interesting concept and I loved that it was portrayed as a living, human-like entity. Though the book was shorter than I would have liked, it was engrossing. Jul 16, Cheryl rated it really liked it. It may be a "children's" book, but it is not childish at all. It teaches a good lesson for all of us and I had a hard time putting it down. Nov 25, Dorine White rated it liked it. The Story- Derby lives on the Northside of town. It is an actual living, breathing line that separates the town and kills anyone who steps over it.

It appeared a generation ago, and no one knows anything about it. To Derby, it is just a way of life. On his way home from school one day, he is shocked to find a pile of bones with a skull on top stacked exactly on the center of the line. Who put it there and how?

He begins studying the li The Story- Derby lives on the Northside of town. He begins studying the line, testing it. He dares to do what nobody else has ever done, tempt it. One day he sees a girl standing on the Southside, watching his exertions.

His interest in her grows and soon she is all he thinks about. Derby becomes desperate, and soon he begins to think of attempting the impossible. My Thoughts- A really strange, but intriguing story. Life seems so normal, but for the line. What is the line? We never actually find out, but we do learn a lot about it as Derby studies it.

First off, it is alive. Second, it can hear, understand and react to the people around it. The mystery of the line is really what kept me reading. There is a subplot about an accidental murder, but I just wanted to learn more about this intriguing line. But of course, the moral of the story is that he dares to do and love.

The character of Derby puzzled me. At first I thought Derby was a girl. But, when the character starts falling for the girl from Southside, I began to question my decision.