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Human Remains Returned to Oneida By SOFIA RUBINSON and GABRIEL MUÑOZ Sun News Editor and Sun Staff Writer
Cornell returned ancestral remains and funerary objects that had been kept in a University archive for six decades to the Oneida Indian Nation on Tuesday. President Martha Pollack apologized for the harm caused by this wrongful possession at a small Sage Chapel ceremony. “We’re returning ancestral remains and possessions that we now recognize never should have been taken, never should have come to Cornell and never should have been kept here,” Pollack said at the ceremony. According to a Notice of Inventory by the National Park Service available in the Federal Register, the remains were first found in August 1964. Local authorities were alerted when the remains
were unearthed during the digging of a waterline ditch near an Oneida village at Onaquaga in Broome County, N.Y. Prof. Kenneth Kennedy, anthropology, was then asked to provide a forensic identification of the remains, which he completed by Sept. 8, 1964, determining that the human remains belonged to a young adult male of Native American ancestry. While it is unclear if the human remains were transferred directly to Kennedy’s laboratory or held temporarily by the Old Onaquaga Historical Society, correspondence between the president of OOHS and Kennedy confirms that an agreement was reached to house the remains at Cornell, according to the notice of inventory. In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act which provides guidelines for
the repatriation and disposition of certain Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony. NAGPRA also required institutions with prior possession of Native American human remains to report them to the federal government. These remains, however, were unreported until Kennedy’s death in 2014. The remains were then transferred to the Department of Anthropology where it was discovered that Kennedy’s original description of the human remains found did not note the presence of additional skeletal remains. These remains belonged to a child under four years old and a teenager under 20 years old. Due to their approximate age, their sex could not be determined. See REMAINS page 3
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Wasted worries | Cornell Dinings aims to prevent copious amounts of food waste.
Cornell Dining Donates Campus Eatery Leftovers By ALLY FERTIG Sun Staff Writer
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Remains head home | President Martha Pollack and Ray Halbritter signed transfer documents to return human remains to Oneida Nations after 16 years.
Cornell eateries on campus aim to minimize food waste as part of the University’s larger sustainability initiatives. Student employees, Cornell Dining and student organizations exercise multifaceted efforts to reduce the waste of food in dining halls and redistribute food to the local community. “We have multiple programs in place to minimize throwing away ‘ready-toeat’ food, both because we don't want
to waste food and because we don't want to waste funds, which comes down to students' funds,” said Karen Brown, senior director of campus life marketing and communications. Prepared food and bakery items at retail eateries get consolidated each Friday and redistributed to campus eateries open over the weekend. This allows for students to purchase these leftover items on the weekends, preventing them from being disposed of. See WASTE page 3
Climate Jobs Institute Aims to Create New Jobs Through Policy Development ILR's Institute addresses climate change by conducting research By GABRIELLA PACITTO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The Industrial and Labor Relations School launched their Climate Jobs Institute on Jan. 25. The Institute will help New York state transition to a stronger clean energy economy by addressing the climate crisis and creating more jobs through continued cutting-edge research. “There are two main objectives. We are trying to be a resource to labor unions around issues of climate change and the transition to clean energy,” said Lara Skinner, executive director of CJI. “[We
also want to be] a resource to elected leaders, legislators, policymakers and the city and state government who are also trying to figure these issues out.” CJI will focus on conducting research, developing policies for governments nationwide to fight climate change and create union jobs, according to their website. “We are the kind of people who look at all three of these things together and say ‘wait there’s a way to address all of these things at once, right?’” Skinner said. “We have to address climate change, and we have to do it at the pace and scale that science
demands, but also… We better be addressing inequality at the same time and making sure that we are righting historic wrongs as we build out this new economy.” According to Skinner, after Hurricane Sandy, she saw firsthand how climate change has deeply impacted workers. She found it was time to create environmental movements in ways to handle climate change. To continue reading this article, please visit www.cornellsun.com Gabriella Pacitto can be reached at gpacitto@cornellsun.com.
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Policy plans | ILR's new Climate Jobs Institue looks to fight climate change and create more jobs through research development.