Just remember, if you dig in the ground as a private citizen you've commited a crime, but if you're the government and do it you're an "archaeologist" and perfectly legal.

So the smithsonian can DiSPOSE of skeletons by admittingly throwing thousands of them in the ocean, and it's okay.

What was it that the FBI took from his home that they are not willing to discuss? Curious minds want to know.

The dude who had all this stuff sounds like he'd be super awesome to hang out with.

This guy travelled all over the world collected, historical artifacts, and fought nazis. So in other words he's Indiana Jones.

It sucks that he died, I suspect you could ask him anything about the artifacts in his possession and he could tell you when, what, and where he got it.

Many universities have native American bones and they are not talking about those. I worked in the "bone room" or Oregon State University in 2010 sorting and logging bones for "repatriation" back to any tribe that can be identified, and/or claimed.

At 2:57, there's a professor of Anthropology "brought in by the FBI." Talk about letting the coyote into the henhouse! She speaks of cultural 'racism,' in that the artifacts are not 'white.' How does she characterize the TENS OF THOUSANDS of indigenous skeletal remains in various anthropological and ethnological museum collections (especially Ivy League universities) across North America? How is that okay???

Please tell SMITHSONIAN to return OUR 12,000 items!!!! GreatBasinNv

Not one mention of the value, the real reason the FBI wanted these artifacts. It's about money not dead bones.

This man was a Curator of Museum, thou private. And I would guess storing the remains from view was out of respect. He had passion for what he did, pretty remarkable person.

Our justice system never ceases to ablaze me...

It’s funny they Agent says “ these people need to be treated with dignity & respect.” Maybe they should try that hard with the living native Americans. Apparently once dead, their human rights return.

FBI should raid museums then, they dug without permission years ago also.

"FBI's most important mission" Give me a break

I can't help but feel bad for the old guy. At least the things that he had were taken care of.

Does anyone know a good documentary or podcast about this man and his story? He is utterly fascinating! My biggest fear is that most of his artifacts will disappear and never be recorded or remembered.

Want to know something. The neighborhood i live in had HUNDREDS of mounds in the late 1800s and the people flattened them to make houses.

There are so many artifacts and paintings in museums in the world that belong in other countries. Is the FBI trying to get them back from the Louvre and the British Museum, for example? There are two Egyptian mummies up the street from me in the Lowe Anthro Museum - are they going back home any time soon? I don't get this story.

This is sad. When you are buried or scattered your wishes and culture should be followed. If I were buried 1,000 years ago I would expect to have my wishes honored. This is wrong.

That man probably lived an amazingly adventurous life, so interesting

He did a good job.. being a collector. He is amazing.

Call me weird. But I for one would of loved to see this collection. I spied some very curious items there. But now it's disappeared,gone,locked away from public view. Was this man formally charged with committing a crime? If so. What was the charge or charges? Did it go to trial?

Indiana Bones: and The Basement of The Stolen Skulls

So it's a horrible crime for a private person to collect/dig up artifacts and bones from ancient cultures, but perfectly OK if a foreign government or one of our institutions does the same. I can understand the desire for knowledge and archaeological excavations, but at least some of the objects which I saw in the video (the so called ancient Chinese jades) were modern reproductions and most of the items readily available on Ebay or through ancient art dealers, and legally available. I know of many instances of "looting" by local people in SE Asis just recently. There are numerous burial grounds with valuable ancient beads and copper alloy castings witch have been continuously looted over the past 50 years in many parts of the Mekong delta....not to mention locals looting Mayan tombs in Mexico and Guatemala on a regular basis, etc, etc..... I guess the FBI doesn't have enough important crimes to work on.

3:10 annoys me a quite a bit since she completely waters down and missuses the term racism. The circumstance of historical relevancy to items and bones is the key here, not the skin color of the people whose graves have been defiled.

They don’t mention that the bones were ..bone tools. Nothing like digging up a human skeleton or anything like that. They try to twist the story to make the guy sound like Jeffrey Dahmer.

how in tf did she tie this situation to racism??

"Racism"??????? You've got to be kidding me...

Stolen artifacts and bones found from Indiana Indiana Jones 5 confirmed!

The FBI was completely taken aback when they met a man that actually worked and was productive. (unlike them)

He might of found something he shouldn't have found.

Never trust a missionary

If that’s not OK, you should go to every museum in the country. They have lots of human bones.

This man was absolutely brilliant, I'll bet.

I was told the British bought a lot of artifacts from the US in the 1900's . I was told Serpent Mound here in Ohio has been dug up and everything extracted and sold to England . I also know a guy who is said to have received stolen artifacts in his basement . They were stolen from a burial site here in Southern Ohio . He keeps them in his basement in a display case covered up with a table cloth .

No difference between him and large museums like the Smithsonian. He seemed to be showing the artifacts and remains he had with respect and dignity. Until we hold corporate museums accountable I don't see any reason to hold this man accountable.

The contrast between the way they handled this and the way they handled Standing Rock is stark.

Imagine being a country and just getting a shippment of your own artifacts out of nowhere, "Wow, didn't even know these were stolen! Welp, they're out of the ground now and in good condition, time to stick 'em in a museum"

Bones aren't humans. That womans fringe gave me bilious.

By any chance did they happen to find a crate about four feet tall, three feet wide and about 8-10 feet long?

He died because the government accused him and raided his privacy rip to this man

I'm glad he lived long enough too share

I wonder how haunted his home was.

I love how they defend him for grave robbing.

3:20 WTF lady are you really going there. It’s history, it’s interesting.

Somebody’s always snitching

How is it possible any of this is illegal. If the artifacts aren't stolen what's the problem. If he was on legal expeditions I see nothing wrong. It seems to be worth a lot of money and the government wants it. Also could contain too much information that the government doesn't want people to know.

I think some of the fascination with the native artifacts is that so much of that history has been ignored and out right intentionally erased that its steeped in mystery. Its a hidden history of the land and finding evidence of it is like finding a lost treasure. It is treasure. Artifacts are quite valuable. Its a culture so far removed from the way things are now, that its mystical, even magical.

Wow no jail time or fines..must be nice.

i think the effort that they put into this is ten times more than they put into helping living native americans

Wahoo. FBI nails 91 year old guy for just to many fossils. The old guy had nothing you wouldn't see in ANY museum. Now I can sleep so much better and safer. WTF. 😂😂😂😂

I flinched each time Anna Warner mispronounced Iriquio.

So the FBI stole it from him!! WTF!!

Dont you dare collect rare items. It's our job to explain history. Says daddy government

looks like they just wanted to rob him, bet they made a fortune selling the stuff

Damn, you'd think his house would be cursed/haunted to the max.

3:20 Racism???? he did this because of racism??? lol lmao

Civil War General Dan Sickles put his own leg bones in a museum and visited the museum to see his bones.

BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE HONEST AND KIND

Finders, keepers! But seriously the bones are a bit of an issue

Wait! The raid happened then the man died in 2015, and we are just shown a news piece now?

So why is our road covered with paleo artifacts we are still finding them on our road These developers dug up a ancient burial ground and paved the road . We're still gathering bones and tools all the pottery is missing

to me he was conserving history not destroying it ! was he right or wrong have no idea only that if he had not collected this would all be lost to time

When i find an artifact i think of it as me preserving history and trying to understand the culture that chose that particular spot to live and why. It should be encouraged to collect stone artifacts.

I wonder if there were the bones of any giants in those remains of 500 people? If there were any, I'm sure they were removed first, and probably destroyed.

I don't see how racism plays into this.

The fbi hasn’t talked to the bro on tik tok with a room of human spines lol

Didn't Daddy Bush dig up the head of Geronimo?

The phrase "you can't take it with you" comes to mind. Graverobbing, the 3rd oldest profession???

I thought the last word in the title for this video was "Jones", not "home"... was about to be like "Hey! Leave Indy's stuff alone!"

Skull and Bones has Geronimo's skull

"It's treating them like they are nt people..." Oh, fer crying out loud. They are bones. Just bones. They are not alive. They are from himans but they are definitely not people. The people who once used them are all dead and have no further use for them. I hope that once I'm done using my bones that people are as passionate about defending my belief system. This can be summarized as follows: 1. For as long as I am actively using them, my bone exclusive belong to me. No one shpuld attempt to remove any of my bones without first obtaining my explicit permission. 2. Once I have reached my expiration date and taken the 838 fast train to Dekay City, I release all claim to these bones. For the record, these bones are not, on any sense of the word, sacred. Littles pieces of my soul are not trapped like prisoners of war within the calcium superstructures. They are dead. The bones are simply decaying, a naturel prpcess that returns my residuals to the planet. I'm not coming back and the bones are of no further use to me. Further, these bones are NOT resting. The bones are not alive and consequently, they have no need of rest nor do they require a church-approved "final resting place" - any old place above, on, or below the ground will do just fine. . 3. I do hereby indemnify and hold neither financially nor cultural liable, anyone who obtains my bones using any method, for any purpose. Such persons are free to modify or destroy my bones as they see fit. Under no circumstance will anyone be srrested and charged with a crime for simply possessing my bones? My bones my be collected, displayed, stored, sold, raffled, smashed, thrown away, smashed without holding anyone who does so criminally or financially liable. 4. Under no circumstances, shall ownership of my bones be held exclusively by the church or the state. I do affirm and certify that the statements above represent my deepest and most cherished beliefs regarding the disposition of my bones once I have no further use for them.

Indiana Jones's grand-kid is horrible

at least the old man acknowledged he had made mistakes and was willing to give back to make up for it.

They came and got his Giants!"* Ps Sacajawea was my seventh great grandmother. Proud to be an American

You had me till you threw racisim into it.

This piece is so well done! Honestly, this was much more exhaustive and thorough then I expected a news segment like this to be. I got answers to questions I didn't even have, and all the ones I did.

When the man collected these things it wasn't illegal and now they want to drag him through the dirt because it's illegal now

So am I the only one curious about that hammer that looked like something Thor might use?

Hey, a real Indiana Jones!

Bruh that woman really said it was racism

Instead of child trafficking, this is what we focus on???

Thank you 🙏

So now the Smithsonian has it all!

racism? how is an interest in another culture racism

The old guy lived to age 91. So much for curses and bad hoodoo and all that.

Wow. What a story!

Why would this man collect human remains and hide them in his basement for decades? That's insane.

Despicable acts! 😡😡😡😢😢

We are all very tired of being lied to.

Over 100 artifacts have been gathered since last week after the discovery in eastern new mexico.The fire starters over 30 of those .Its a village worth of paleo artifacts

racism. really??? more like curiosiry

He should have been able to keep them. How stupid.

I hope if someone digs up my bones after I am dead, I hope it is someone that is poor and needs to feed their family.

I think he reconciled the seizure realizing his family may not have shared his passion for antiquities and artifacts. I'm glad he cooperated. A 90 year old man didn’t need incarceration.

Good reporting CBS. Thank you for spending some time on this and explaining to the viewer why if it wouldn't be ok to go around digging up the cemeteries where my European ancestors are buried, it isn't ok to do that to Native American burial grounds. As a student of anthropology I appreciate how you handled this.

I was sooooo interested in this .. really amazing story .. sad but amazing

When the Government wants something of yours ,they will find a way to retrieve it from you. By law or no law.or just because.

I don't condone the robbing of graves but isn't that exactly what archeologists have done for centuries and placed the remains in museums. I guess that is OK.