We discuss the implications of territorial differentiation within this niche in light of research on land use by culturally affiliated groups within a broad cultural entity.
In making arrangements to repatriate these culturally affiliated remains over the past 20 years, archaeologists and tribal leaders opened new lines of communication with each other.
The She people, culturally affiliated with the Miao and the Yao (Mian), are distributed in the northern mountains, from the coast to the interior, and are even found beyond the Fujian border in Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang.
And after lengthy negotiations, the campus museum has repatriated a fair number of culturally affiliated remains to recognized tribal groups.
Last October, the corps, which has jurisdiction, ordered a halt to the DNA work and announced that it would give the skeleton to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which it considered "culturally affiliated".
NAGPRA requires that museums and other repositories repatriate culturally affiliated remains and draw up a list of unaffiliated remains, but it is silent on what to do with the unaffiliated remains.
