The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona plans to rebury the remains of nearly 200 ancestors that were removed from 11 sites in the 1970s and the 1980s.

The remains were found in an area known as the Anamax/Rosemont site. They date somewhere between A.D. 600 and 1200.

The tribe fears even more ancestors will be disturbed due to a proposed copper mine in the area. But Rosemont Copper says it has avoided working in particular areas.

Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, museums and institutions have inventoried 153,795 individual remains but only have repatriated 37,998 remains to tribes, American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians, according to the National NAGPRA Office.

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O'odham to rebury bones (The Arizona Daily Star 5/19)
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