🏞️ Sign up to Camp for free: https://camp.beehiiv.com/ Professor Elizabeth Weiss is an American Anthropologist, Archaeologist & Historian with controversial views on the repatriation of skeletal remains for reburial. She has battled universities in court and tested the boundaries of how academic culture butts heads with ethics and woke culture. I hope you enjoy this convo! Welcome to CAMP! Elizabeth's new book, On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors, is out this week! Amazon link: https://a.co/d/1Iwq8GL. S/o to @bakscapeTM , @forthepeople and @BlueChew for sponsoring this episode! Intro by Christos Papastefanou Produced by @99OvrAll ** TIMESTAMPS ** 00:00 Intro 1:06 Is Politics overreaching into Science? 4:00 Who has reasonable claims to discoveries? Impact of NAGPRA 10:50 Talking specifics with Tribal actions + Weiss’ reading of History 17:38 Generalizations, people aren’t monoliths + individuals from the past 23:36 Tribes shouldn’t have precedence over Anthropologists 27:56 The Kennewick Man + Multiple migrations to America? 37:20 NAGPRA overreach + political ramifications 41:55 Are there alternatives? Positive repatriation cases = Sitting Bull 49:33 Strength of links to the past + impact of looting 54:26 You can handle bones with no gloves 58:05 Coming to an agreement + menstruation was a sticking point 1:01:31 Weiss’ real beef is religious fundamentalism 1:07:00 Determining links to the past 1:10:11 Weiss views on Postmodernism, Wokeism + Islam 1:14:00 How do Native Americans feel about Weiss? 1:18:03 Any regrets from her Academic past? 1:24:06 Finding the balance + reasonable religious objections 1:27:26 Research’s real life consequences 1:28:57 Sex and gender in Anthropology + pushback 1:35:40 You can pathologize bones + finding all impacts on our remains 1:41:30 Weiss view on transpeople + adults should be afforded all rights 1:46:56 Excluding sex from archeology + rejecting female hunter-gatherers 1:51:33 Academia endorsing sex non-binary + secret support for Weiss 1:58:02 How can we resolve this? NAGPRA being repealed?