Skull Wars 
Subtitle: Kennewick Man, Archeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: March 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780465092246
First sentence: ON THE MORNING OF October 12, 1492, Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) guided his small landing party onto dry land.
Description: "In Skull Wars, archaeologist David Hurst Thomas traces the 500-year roots of the Kennewick Man controversy.

From Thomas Jefferson's invention of scientific archaeology to the brutal massacres in which skulls of Indian warriors were sent east to build museum collections; from the strange fates of Ishi and Qisuk to the astonishing power of oral tradition in preserving centuries-old memories, this book tells what really went on between archaeologists and Indians - and shows how the two groups can work together in the future."--BOOK JACKET.