PC Reburial?

i need to blur this story a bit to protect.... well, the guilty, but someone who told me this tale in confidence.

A few years a young woman, relative of someone we know, told us the following.

She had worked at [fill in the blank with any famous Southwestern site] and other places, and proudly bragged how at one site they had found an Anasazi- era "shaman's skull"-- her words-- filled with rattlesnake bones--!!-- and that they had turned it over to "the Indians" [which?] for instant reburial so no Anglo anthropologists would do any more "misinterpretations" [exact quote] like Christy Turner's of cannibalism. (Non- archaeologically- minded readers of this blog should know that Turner's work is meticulously documented and well- nigh irrefutable).

Makes one wonder what else has been reburied or destroyed to fit somebody's political agenda, on any side. "Truth is the first casualty", maybe especially when the wars are cultural. What can we do?

Thanks to Chas for persuading me to tell this tale.