By Nora Caplan-Bricker
Staff Reporter
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It looks like the public will not be learning any times soon whether the secret society Skull and Bones keeps an Apache warrior's skull in its tomb.
A District of Columbia judge on July 27 dismissed a case that had been brought against the mysterious society, as well as the University and senior members of the U.S. government, in February 2009. The plaintiffs are 20 descendants of the legendary Native American chieftain Geronimo hoping to reclaim their...
#1 By Long live the lawyer 5:44a.m. on August 10, 2010
Ramsey Clark fought for the Kent State issue 40 years ago and is still going strong. Long live the lawyer!
PK
M.Div.'80
#2 By I know it's summer... 12:24p.m. on August 10, 2010
...but come on:
Slobodan Milošević
#3 By Coit 2:23p.m. on August 10, 2010
Keys has it.
#4 By Pasta Keane 8:58p.m. on August 11, 2010
Ahhhh the long hibernation is over. I look forward to waking up to some nice AntiPasta
#5 By radical civil libertarian? 6:42a.m. on August 13, 2010
shadowpress.org ends a long piece on Ramsey Clark with the following question. (Can they actually believe in a conspiritorial view of history? Maybe he's just a radical civil libertarian.)
PK
M.Div.'80
"What is Ramsey Clark: dupe, kook or spook? Has a well-intentioned but none-too-bright Clark been duped by the WWP cadre? Or has his reasoning become unhinged for reasons of personal psychology? Or, is he a deep-cover spook, whose real Devil's pact is with sinister elements of the US intelligence community, his mission to divide and discredit any resistance to Washington's war moves?
You decide." shadowpress.org
#6 By Y10 6:47p.m. on August 13, 2010
@Coit: says who?
#7 By aaron 10:24p.m. on August 13, 2010
let me get my thoughts together and write my response. never in my life have i felt the need to respond to something as to what i feel. what has happened to this country? being half native american, this is clearly a mistake.
#8 By @6 6:20a.m. on August 15, 2010
Maybe Scroll and Key, another secret society.
#9 By mark albino 11:38a.m. on August 16, 2010
What is wrong with this country! Native American Indian or not he was still an American and a human being. No one has the right to own someones remains. They should be returned to the family for proper burial! I guess because it is Yale and the people there think they are privileged and entitled they can do anything they want. The judge is wrong and should do the right thing and force skull and bones to return Geronimo's remains back to his family! If not, then his family has the same right to desecrate not only the judges family remains but the Bush family and all those involved as well. Maybe after this their feelings of entitlement will change!
#10 By Wag 12:17p.m. on August 16, 2010
Is the judge who made this ruling a member of this "secret" society? Just wondering...
#11 By Grave-Misconduct 9:00p.m. on August 16, 2010
@ #9
The white man's religion hasn't done much better: their own God's body was stolen from its tomb at the Garden at Calvary; grave robbery extends as far down the centuries as Dickens's Jerry Cruncher in A Tale of Two Cities.
And grave-misconduct with the remains of the dead has its most shocking example right into this very year of 2010 with the mislabelling and downright loss of thousands of soldiers' bodies at Arlington National Cemetery.
The members of Skull and Bones would treat the remains of Yale's BULLDOG with more respect than they have bragged about treating the skull of Geronimo.
And this is considered to be the legendary(but historical) Yale practical joke of the grandfather of TWO Presidents of the United States!?
We steal the Indian's land; we exterminate his people; we rob his graves; and then we send our children to Yale to learn how to trivialize these events.
Proud to be an American.
PK
#12 By Correction 9:33p.m. on August 16, 2010
PS
I should have said "grandfather and father of TWO Presidents of the United States" not "the grandfather of TWO Presidents of the United States". (Even that correction sounds odd, as if he fathered TWO and grandfathered TWO. Oh well, the limits of language.)
PK
#13 By med '10 3:09a.m. on August 17, 2010
And Yale Medical students used to steal the bodies of New Haven citizens to practice upon. Is PK going to get on his high horse over that? If you hate Yale so much, why do you continually post nonsense here? Really, go bother Harvard or something.
#14 By Ghoulish 1:21p.m. on August 17, 2010
@ Yale Med '10
Many of my relatives, descended from my great grandmother five removed, who was a Pequot squaw, have been buried in New Haven or nearby over the last century, so I am certainly willing to get on my high horse about Yale med students stealing New Haven bodies for research.
Ghoulish.
(Like drinking out of Geronimo's skull).
And BTW, no one FORCES you or anyone else to read my posts. If you and Yale are "bothered" by them, the "bother" is self-imposed.
Just ignore them.
I hope if anyone with my name ever comes under your care -- or knife --that you will be professional and put your "botheredness" aside.
Solzhenitsyn's motto is on the masthead of my blog, The Anti-Yale: ("Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." Proverbs 27:6.)
I don’t hate Yale:I hate Yale’s self-intoxication ( much as a son hates not his mother but her alcoholism).
PK
M.Div. ‘80
#15 By Easy 1:43p.m. on August 18, 2010
You know what would get a real investigation done quickly?
Protests here on the campus.
#16 By Invite 5:44p.m. on August 18, 2010
How about inviting the descendants of Geronimo to campus to request the skull in person?
PK
#17 By AC 12:19a.m. on August 19, 2010
There's absolutely no way that any judge is going to rule in favor of the Native Americans. Their case is based on a LEGEND. They don't have any proof whatsoever. The words "innocent until proven guilty" come to mind. Ridiculous.
Ramsey isn't a kook, he's just taking these Apaches for the proverbial ride. I bet he's loving raking in his hefty retainer!
#18 By Pro Bono 6:24a.m. on August 19, 2010
@ 17
Stop speculating and paste this url into your browser search window and watch Ramsey Clark speak about the case himself on this Youtube clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94KVMAFWEY
You don't understand civil libertarians if you think he's getting a big fat fee. Just type in a google search for "ramsey clark pro bono" and see what comes up.
PK
#19 By Y2010 7:44a.m. on August 19, 2010
I would be upset by this ruling if I believed Skull and Bones actually had the skull.
They don't have it.
#20 By What was going on at Yale 100 years ago! 12:38p.m. on August 20,
2010
Let me get this straight.
In the same list of contents for this YDS on-line edition I see that on the hundredth anniversary of Geronimo's death (Feb. 17, 2009) a Yale secret society is being sued for recovery of Geronimo's grave-robbed skull; and on the hundredth
anniversary of Yale Professor Bingham's discovery of the treasures at Machu Picchu Yale itself is being sued for recovery of those Inca artifacts.
What was going on at Yale 100 years ago that made Yalie's (both undergraduate and faculty) think it was OK to steal?
Could it be that people of red and brown skin were not seen as human and therefore not embraced by the long WHITE Judeo-Christian arm of the Ten Commandments?
Ironic since the authors of the Decalogue ( the Ten Commandments) had browner skin than Obama.
Give the skull back. Give the artifacts back. And maybe Yale should give whatever buildings were built by slaves back. (But to whom?)
In any of these three instances, has any spokesperson thought of simply offering a sincere apology?
Oh, an apology suggests guilt.
Can't do that.
PK
#21 By Y10 12:36p.m. on August 21, 2010
There are actually a lot of bones in Skull and Bones. Maybe they just can't keep track, you know.
Scroll and Key's not that big on bones-- they're much more into intellectually ethereal stuff, so I doubt they have it.
#22 By Yalie 4:19p.m. on August 21, 2010
@ PK
Take a bit of your own advice and stop speculating yourself. You're wasting your time crying for the return of items which have not even been shown to be stolen in the first place.
Maybe you should start asking Santa to give back all of those milk and cookies while you're at it?
#23 By Santa under oath 5:12p.m. on August 21, 2010
The point of Ramsey Clark's suit is to compel testimony under oath. Then the speculating stops. Even Santa tells the truth under oath: No, Virginia.
PK
#24 By Yalie 3:05p.m. on August 23, 2010
Oh yes! I've heard that even O.J. Simpson tells the truth under oath.
#25 By Cross-examined 6:23a.m. on August 24, 2010
@ 24
CROSS-EXAMINED under oath.
PK
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