April 5, 2002

BRAZIL: Yanonami demand return of blood from North American scientists

The Yanomani Amazonian Indians recently requested the return of blood samples taken in 1967 from a few villages in Venezuela and Brazil by the anthropologists, James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon. The samples are presently held primarily at Penn State and other universities.

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