The unearthing of an Indian graveyard on the Olympic Peninsula six years ago set in motion events that propelled a Native American tribe and state government through months of negotiation to a long-awaited reckoning.
Contractors building a dry dock on the Port Angeles waterfront were stopped in their tracks when they began uncovering long-buried artifacts and bone fragments in what quickly became a major archaeological site. They had inadvertently stumbled on the ancient village of Tse-whit-zen, one of the largest and oldest Indian villages ever found in the Pacific Northwest. ...