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Besides his monkey business, Van Roosmalen specializes in medicinal plants (he even apprenticed to a shaman of the Kamayura tribe) and in rain-forest conservation. He knew he wanted to do fieldwork when he studied primates in Holland. There Van Roosmalen clashed with his university professors over the value of observing lab monkeys. "It was like putting a child in a cage and drawing conclusions about all Homo sapiens," he huffs...
Though Narragansett tribe members are pressuring the museum to quicken the process of identification, Watson said that the museum has done all it can to identify the remains...
...museum, like the Narragansett tribe, is now "waiting for the Department of the Interior to create regulations" regarding this issue, Watson said...
...museum has been collecting archaeological remains for more than 125 years, however, and many items cannot be specifically linked to a tribe or location...
Ryan said he was unaware of the current stance of the Wampanoag tribe, to whom the Peabody had planned to repatriate some of the remains...