The Center for Big Bend Studies Director, Dr. Bryon Schroeder’s research at Spirit Eye Cave was featured in the New Yorker!! The article, “The Bodies in the Cave” was written by Rachel Monroe, and the art is illustrated by Marco Quadri, was published October 3, 2022.
Months of sleuthing, difficult conversations, and DNA testing all helped piece together the destructive history of this site — resulting in a member of the local population being able to prove lineal descendant status pertaining to remains taken from the cave.