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BLM ties remains of at least 35 people held in Arizona to Native Village of Akutan
The remains of at least 35 people removed from two eastern Aleutian islands more than 50 years ago, and now held at Arizona State University, could be returned to the Native Village of Akutan starting Dec. 12.
The Bureau of Land Management has determined that the remains are Native American and reasonably connected to the tribe, according to a federal notice filed Tuesday.
The ancestors were excavated or collected between 1970 and 1973 from four sites on Akun and Akutan islands: 20 from Chulka, 10 from Saa, two from Amatanan, two from Siskena and one from either Saa or Siskena. The notice lists no funerary objects with them. Some of the remains were coated with a clear substance that may be polyvinyl acetate, which the university's anthropology lab used in the 1980s, the notice says.
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