A human skull, identified as Native American, has been returned to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde after a cold case investigation by the Linn County Sheriff’s Office major crimes detectives with assistance from the county chief deputy medical examiner .
On May 25, 1984, a sheriff’s deputy seized the skull from the family of a 7-year-old boy who had taken the skull to Hawthorne Grade School in Sweet Home for show-and-tell.
The boy’s family…