The Anzick reburial was a meaningful and significant event.

It was also the product of a negotiation that took place within constraints — legal, institutional, scientific, practical — that limited what was possible.

The communities involved made the best decisions they could within those constraints.

The fact that other Indigenous scholars have questioned those decisions does not invalidate the choices made by those who participated; it reflects the genuine diversity of Indigenous opinion about how ancient remains should be treated and what role Western science should play in understanding Native history.

What is not in question is that the reburial happened, that it was conducted with genuine respect and ceremony, and that the child whose bones had been in storage for decades was returned to the earth in the presence of people who understood him as an ancestor rather than a specimen.