Could you talk about the kinds of discussions that go on inside a tribe, vis-a-vis repatriation?
Vicenti: In my own tribe, there was a very funny phenomenon. Years ago, there was a second language type of funding, and people didn’t really jump up and say, well, let’s restore the Apache language. Language is not a major assessment of your character. But how you treat the dead is. So with repatriation people just came out of the woodwork. Not all of the debate has been positive. A lot of it has been like, “I don’t want to deal with the dead, you keep them.” But when people begin to think that it may not be just a body in a box, but a body and a jaw, or part of a body and a jaw, or a head on a shelf, they say, “Well, that’s not right.” That’s on one level. You have cultural leaders coming out. And then on a separate level you have the political leaders, their hesitance to become a primary force. In other words, there’s almost a church and state distinction looming in the background–partly a carryover, I think, from western civilization. And it could blow up in the long run if we don
