NEW YORK - The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony with the meteorite in its home at the American Museum of Natural History. Now a chunk of the 10,000-year-old meteorite is up for auction, and the tribe is denouncing its sale. Larry McShane, MSNBCNPR, like most mainstream media, got this story all wrong. They like to pretend that they are going to be 'objective' so when they do a story about the sale of the meteorite they feel compelled to mention the Native American tribe that believes the sale is wrong. On one side, just...
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