Mar
2
2009
Join Guest Speaker Beverly Yackel at the HCGS monthly meeting, March 14th, 2009. Ms Yackel will be presenting “Getting Organized”, something that all need help with sooner or later! The meeting will start promptly at 11:00 am at the Secaucus Public Library, www.secaucus.bccls.org for directions. Refreshments will be served.
Mar
1
2009
The following article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.
The great-grandson of Apache warrior Geronimo argues in a lawsuit that a secretive society at Yale University holds the remains of his great-grandfather. Geronimo was buried in Oklahoma, but some say a secret society absconded with his remains.
Harlyn Geronimo has sued Yale and the society — the Order of Skull and Bones — to try to recover the remains. “I think what would be important is that the remains of Geronimo be with his ancestors,” he said.
Skull and Bones, a collegiate society that’s been around since 1832, includes alumni such as former President George W. Bush and his grandfather, Prescott Bush.
In 1990, a federal law was passed to protect Native Americans’ rights to their family member’s remains. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act addresses the rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes and native Hawaiian organizations to Native American human remains as well as cultural objects.
You can read more at: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/geronimo.remains/index.html.
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