Posted on 02/04/2022 1:03:02 PM PST by Twotone
An anthropology professor is suing San Jose State University in federal court in California, claiming the school smeared her as a racist and colonialist, and punished her because she’s been critical of a federal antiquities law.
The legal complaint (pdf) in the case, Weiss v. Perez, court file 5:22-cv-641, was filed on Jan. 31 with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lead defendant, Stephen Perez, is being sued in his official capacity as interim president of San Jose State University (SJSU).
The public university “retaliated against” SJSU professor Elizabeth Weiss “for her views,” attorney Daniel Ortner of Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) told The Epoch Times. Sacramento-based PLF, a national public interest law firm, is representing Weiss.
“San Jose State University has labeled professor Weiss a racist merely for teaching and for advancing controversial ideas in her field. They’ve barred her from doing her research and done so unjustly,” Ortner said.
“Their actions are unconstitutional retaliation under the First Amendment, and we are eager to fight on her behalf.”
Weiss, a specialist in osteology, the study of human skeletal remains, is a tenured anthropology professor at SJSU. Weiss has been critical of the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which, since 1990, has recognized aboriginal human remains, funerary objects, objects of cultural importance, and sacred objects removed from federal or tribal lands, as belonging to lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations.
In the 2020 book she co-authored, “Repatriation and Erasing the Past,” she took aim at NAGPRA and similar state laws that require universities and museums to surrender Native American skeletal remains to tribal descendants. Such laws undercut objective scientific inquiry and run afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s establishment clause by favoring religion over science, she argues.
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Federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is absolutely necessary to protect the tribal scam that they were ‘created’ here. All their claims basically rest on it.
Analyzing remains would prove that the current tribes are just the latest in a long line of other people they slaughtered to arrive on top.
And with that the tibial claims of ‘special rights’, superior to all others, would fall. Then. the ruling families would no longer collect huge sums of money to keep them in the life style to which they have become accustomed.
I am not sure that I necessarily agree with her, but any citizen has a right of free speech to advocate that the legislature change public laws.
When does anthropology become grave desecration?
Apparently she posted a photo of herself on Twitter holding a skull. Big mistake. Academics should stay away from Twitter. It’s poison.
Exactly, it protects the scam that keeps Indians “special”. The Chinese believe that North America and Australia were Chinese, and they the OG people of the land are Native Chinesians.
The Indians should have won the war for dominance in the Americas. By dint of losing, they live by the winners rules.
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I read that she was tenured and surprised that she would be fired for her view. Then I thought, she must be white. A click on the link confirmed it.
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