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• Position: Oregon Native Americans want meteorite back - Brief Article

It came from outer space. And, having landed in America, it wound up--where else?--in court.

The 15-ton Willamette meteorite has a special place in the newly reopened Hayden Planetarium at New York City's American Museum of Natural History. In fact, the new showcase was literally built around the big hunk of space rock.

But a federation of Native American tribes in Oregon says that the meteorite is a holy tribal object that was spirited away in 1906--and they...