Please follow the same pattern of tasks as for GMO and Global Warming topics.

A reasonably coherent compilation of multiple newspaper accounts of the Kennewick man saga from 1996 through July 2005. Most are quite short and can be digested quickly.

http://www.kennewick-man.com/kman/timeline/index.html

A similar conflict in Australia

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DB8A.htm

With recognized ownership, aboriginal leaders become cooperative

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5368/1342

Meteorological science and aboriginal views

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/18/offbeat.weather.aborigines.reut/

A clear cultural conflict of an indigenous culture with a western science view of medical treatment

http://www.epilepsy.com/articles/ar_1063680870.html

Probably the most controversial and intense conflicts arise around the nature of human origins. We won’t have time to go into this area but I’ve put in some ‘optional’ links in case some of you want to pursue this on your own. What follows is NOT a required part of our course but some of you may find these interesting.

One Australian aboriginal human origin story

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_13.html

One Native American human origin story

http://www.bluecloud.org/32.html

One Hebrew/Christian human origin story

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_15.html

One brief scientific human origin story (first page has brief summary)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution