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Published online 15 October 2008 | Nature 455, 858-860 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455858a
News Feature
Palaeontology: School of rock
Native Americans want to claim fossil resources found on their lands. Rex Dalton looks at how tribes and palaeontologists are working together to avoid bitter ownership disputes.
In the heart of America's dinosaur country, the relationship between Native Americans and outside palaeontologists has always been tense. In the 1890s, the battle between white settlers and Native Americans was barely over when legendary fossil-hunter Edward Cope arrived to prospect for bones in the grassy hills that make up the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North and South Dakota.
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