PinGGG!................
Destroying knowledge and history.
Now, watch someone not bother to read the fine print, and complain that to close these Indian Artifact museums is ‘an outrageously racist attempt to hide that heritage from the public!”
Why does the Federal Government have ANY say in the display of artifacts if a museum owns them?
In perpetuity, does everything an Indian makes or touches remain under their idiotic domain forever?
Sodom on the Potomac needs to be completely upended and scattered to the winds.
Wore fur. Burned wood in order to try and be warm. Killed animals and ate meat.
All, prohibited by The Party.
>> federal regulations limiting the display of cultural items
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You could make that argument for every anthropological artifact in every museum around the world!
Annnndd… they’re gone.
Why don’t they just close their doors entirely since they’re so worried about offending everyone and everything.
They are not “indigenous.”
Just making room for the St. George Floyd exhibit.
I loved those halls when I was a kid and they used to have FREE programs, on Saturdays, with films and lectures (by actual EXPERTS and some for real Indians), for children, That were very interesting,well informed, educational, and which NEVER put Indians in a bad light.
This stupid WOKE crap is just disgusting and stupid!
I wonder what they are going to do, or rather have done, to the very little ( back in the late '40s-1950s) attended Indian Museum, in Washington Heights. It was there, that I learned all about N.Y. Indian tribes using animal guts to stuff/make sausages in; amongst other fascinating things.
Cowards and fools! I learned a lot about American Indians from going to museums, including this one and subscribed to Natural History magazine for decades.
They changed over the years and hired an open MARXIST Stephen Jay Gould to do a lot of their columns writing.
Should is listed as a member of the Advisory Board of “Rethinking Marxism”, Summer 1990, Volume 3, Number 2.
“The aim of Rethinking Marxism is to stimulate interest in and debate over the explanatory power and social consequences of Marxian economic, cultural and social analysis”. Inside front cover page.
Hope this helps explain a small part of the thinking of leftist New York State and others regarding museum collections which help to introduce people to differing cultures.
Bodies and skulls should be left alone, but other artifacts should be allowed, except for sacred items. My Indian husband agrees with me. These displays are educational.
Just wait until the dinosaur community gets wind of this! They will want those sacred ancestor dinosaur bones to be given a proper burial. Having them on display for Homo Sapiens to ogle them is downright disrespectful!
Bodies and skulls should be left alone, but other artifacts should be allowed, except for sacred items. My Indian husband agrees with me. These displays are educational.
Good....if my culture is being destroyed then so should others....George Orwell would feel smug since he predicred all of this..
And because this WAS a program...I'll bet there are a lot of Museums that have done the same.
They are upset because someone wants to land on the Moon because Native Americans consider the Moon sacred and they want everyone in the world to be utterly mindful, respectful and obedient to their culture.
How is that knowledge of their ‘culture’ to be promulgated if not by museums and other public venues that showcase it? Word of mouth? THEIR word and lore that can get twisted with any political wind of the day?