The skull mystery is, from this perspective, one particular and high-profile instance of a broader problem that affects thousands of Native American individuals whose remains are held in institutional collections across the country.

The Prescott Bush Connection: What It Adds

The involvement of Prescott Bush in the alleged 1918 grave robbery has given the story a political dimension that has both helped and complicated the historical inquiry.

Prescott Bush was a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.

His son George Herbert Walker Bush was the forty-first President of the United States.

His grandson George W.