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One day at the end of the twentieth century, Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian, he started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-since discredited, and embarked on a personal and professional journey to giving up race himself. This passionate book offers a powerful meditation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. Echo-Hawk examines personal identity, social movements, and policy-NAGPRA, Indian law, Red Pride, indigenous archaeology-showing how they rely on race and how they should move beyond it.

Ellick reviews The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race by Roger Echo-Hawk.

Experts excavating graves believe Indian graves and burial remains and relics are \"scientific property\" and ancestral remains of American Indians are tagged as \"specimens\" and \"data\" or \"resources\" and \"federal properties.\"

\"For Native Americans in the United States, however, this trust has been broken,\" according to [Walter R. Echo-Hawk] and [Roger C. Echo-Hawk] in a book they published, \"Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States.\" \"Double standard,\" as defined in Webster's dictionary, \"is the practice of allowing certain codes or principles containing different provisions of one group of people, but not for another.\" Since that time, every conscientious citizen in the United States has been horrified at the thought of digging up bodies and those who do so are labeled \"grave robbers\" and \"ghouls,\" according to the authors.

Plans for improving the site with an all-weather facility include providing an archeological research and teaching center year around, according to Adrien Hannus, an Augustana college archeologist working on the site. Dr. Hannus said that the city of Mitchell unwittingly saved the prehistoric site when it annexed the land decades ago. The 22-acre site is unique since many sites, mainly along the Missouri River, have been destroyed by farming and in recent years looting has become a major problem. \"The city of Mitchell built a golf course over the burial mounds so any prehistoric human remains are undisturbed,\" said Dr. Hannus. According to Yankton Sioux Tribal Planner Allen Hare, longtime tribal council members George Cournoyer and William Weddell say they can't recall any contact or meeting having to do with the village site. However Dr. Hannus said the meeting took place on Oct. 7,1992, in Mitchell between then Yankton tribal chairman, Steve Cournoyer, several council members, the Archeodome Development Committee, Dr. Hannus and the architects.