How does bravery come into play?
Vicenti: Over the course of repatriation, we may make the most hideous of discoveries that our metaphysics are incomplete. That the restoration of our patrimony doesn’t answer all the difficult questions. We have to muster the courage to recognize that we are a new generation, with its own issues, and this one is ours. Federal Archeology: 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
