Who Owns the Past?

Overview

This documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe, tells the story of how the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and Native peoples over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indigenous lands.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 15, 2000

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Jed Riffe Films

Cast

Linda Hunt

Director

Jed Riffe,George Burdeau

Writer

William Smock

Producer

Jed Riffe

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0293706