Indian remains apparently dumped in landfill

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2001

In yet another chapter in the controversy over the bones of 16 Midwestern and Plains tribes, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln says workers apparently dumped the incinerated remains in a landfill.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman wrote a letter to a Santee Sioux tribal member and said the remains were most likely dumped in a nearby landfill. The bones had been incinerated in the 1960s and school workers regularly took waste to the landfill, said Perlman.

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