Profile: Smithsonian Institution returns a preserved human brain to a Native American group today

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Profile: Smithsonian Institution returns a preserved human brain to a Native American group today

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A group of Native Americans from California is here in Washington to pick up the preserved brain of a man named Ishi. Ishi was believed to have been the last of the Yahi tribe. The Smithsonian Institution has possessed Ishi's brain for more than 80 years. It was part of a controversial collection of Native American remains. Over the last ...

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