Clinton, just wanted to point out that Columbus went to his grave thinking he reached asia. (although at the time of his expedition there was some discrepancy on the size of the Earth, he believed it was significantly smaller while there were some scholars that correctly surmised that the size of the Earth was much larger than he believed and raised that as problem in reaching CHina and Chipango (or Japan) I read in the papers recently (a few weeks ago) that through DNA studies (at least one wave of emigration from asia - came from Japan (the Jomon culture of 15,000 b.p.) and recently scholars have suggested that the migration during the Ice age was along the coast of alaska and b.c. as there would be an abundance of food (specifically salmon) and that is certainly a faster way to get to south america than by land.

its also possible though there is no evidence that Japanese (and Chinese) fishermen may have been shipwrecked on the bc. coast in prehistoric times. the ocean current follows that path and often there are glass floats from Japanese fishing nets found on the coast.

re: kennewick man, as far as I know he has not been reburied, perhaps people are confused with bc.s "Iceman" a body of a native hunter found frozen in the rockies (dating back 550 to 600 years) that has been studied and after 2 years was returned to the First Nations for cremation and reburial. PEtr