Thursday, December 02, 2004

AP Hampers Anglo-Native Relations

I was reading this article because I was bored and it was linked off of fark. The title is: "How the colonists did brain surgery -
Evidence hints at skull drilling and autopsy in 1600s". It seems there was a skull found in the Jamestown area with evidence of drilling. A doctor who examined the skull determined that the man had been struck from behind, and then had two holes drilled into his head to relieve pressure. That's not all he could tell - the doctor knows the culprit as well:

"Owsley thinks the man was hit in the back of the head with a stone ax and suffered a fractured skull. That would suggest the blow came from an Indian, Straube said."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6630546

Oh really Dr. Straube? Why are you so quick to blame the Indians in this? Must we still engage in the propaganda of labeling Native Americans as savages? I'm disgusted Dr. Straube. What's more amazing, Straube admitted that this but one of a handful of possibilities:

"But Straube said it is also possible the man simply tripped and fell and hit his head on a rock."

That just seemed weird to me. Warren



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