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Museum of Natural History Closing Native American Exhibits After Biden’s New Rules Kick In
GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 1/29/2024 | Rachel M. Emmanuel, The Western Journal

Posted on 01/29/2024 8:03:24 AM PST by bitt

American historian Howard Zinn once said, “If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything.”

The American Museum of Natural History announced Friday that it will immediately close two halls showcasing Native American cultural artifacts in order to comply with updated federal regulations on repatriating indigenous remains and sacred objects to tribes, according to NBC News.

The museum is shutting down its Hall of Eastern Woodlands and Hall of the Great Plains, which together contain thousands of items related to Native American tribes. Smaller objects across other galleries will also be removed from public view, according to The New York Times.

The American Museum of Natural History will close 2 major halls exhibiting Native American objects. Leaders said on Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on items. pic.twitter.com/WEMnLcAS5P

— Lakota People’s Law Project (@lakotalaw) January 26, 2024

In December, President Biden signed an executive order directing new support for tribal self-governance. One action called on the Interior Department to finalize updates to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which President George H. Bush signed into law in 1990.

That federal law enabled tribes to reclaim ancestral remains and cultural artifacts removed from tribal lands.

The revised rules require museums and federal agencies to get tribal consent before displaying Native American human remains and sacred objects.

The new regulations give museums five years to return all Native American remains in their collections and also require them to defer to tribes’ oral histories when determining which groups to send sacred cultural patrimony items back to, according to The Times.

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To: bitt
More divide and conquer. More promotion of tribalism in the US.

"In December, President Biden signed an executive order directing new support for tribal self-governance."

How could this being intentional and orchestrated be any more clear?

41 posted on 01/29/2024 9:40:40 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: lastchance

An ossuary? Like the catacombs beneath Paris?

Its normal for the rest of the world, to stack bones, we have always had room to waste. At least one of your ancestors is likely stacked somewhere, it just isnt in recent enough memory for it to be normal for you.


42 posted on 01/29/2024 9:41:56 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Zinn was plagiarizing from Cicero. Cicero said, "Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain always a child."

How many of these Indian artifacts can be reliably connected to a particular tribe? Over time different tribes occupied a particular part of the country, so the tribe there when the whites showed up were not necessarily the makers of the items that ended up in the museum.

43 posted on 01/29/2024 9:44:15 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: bitt

Erasing native American history continues.


44 posted on 01/29/2024 9:52:30 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: bitt
Hidden history, banned history, right before your eyes.

Statues and monuments too.

45 posted on 01/29/2024 9:59:10 AM PST by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State and Reconstruct Civilian Government: https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: Retrofitted

Heh.


46 posted on 01/29/2024 10:15:20 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Howard Zinn is such a commie that even regular liberals think he’s not a serious historian.


47 posted on 01/29/2024 10:20:15 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: 9YearLurker
Zinn has been a pox on the teaching of American history, but he’s right on this point.

You realize what Zinn was doing here, right? His version of history (cherry picked anecdotes that only support his thesis) is meant to be the "correct" version of history. He's training students to think that they are informed when they read his work, and to reject anything other than Zinn-story.
48 posted on 01/29/2024 10:23:53 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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49 posted on 01/29/2024 10:29:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Not at all like an ossuary or catacombs. I mean a shelf in a storage room. One that is not in anyway where bones were laid with prayers and respect. But stacked like any other object to be studied and catalogued by museum staff.


50 posted on 01/29/2024 10:52:39 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I think you can declare your sacred land tax exempt if you graze cattle on it.

I doubt the Indians viewed every object as sacred. But if they want them back that is up to them. Though I hope they see the value of making objects that tell their history and culture available to museums and other such places.


51 posted on 01/29/2024 10:56:12 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Honest Nigerian

I think maybe it is a reference to when copper was first used to coin pence.


52 posted on 01/29/2024 10:57:36 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: bitt

If these exhibits are closed, that will contribute to the general public’s ignorance about Native Americans!


53 posted on 01/29/2024 11:05:15 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: bitt

So... Instead of using replicas like many museums do to make sure the real thing is safe, they just close the exhibits?

Great.


54 posted on 01/29/2024 11:13:43 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Antoninus

Doesn’t matter. The statement referenced is correct.

Again, I know he’s been a horror for young American minds.


55 posted on 01/29/2024 11:13:49 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: sauropod

This touches on the larger point, as to how all of us handle liberals in our families and personal lives. Do we let them spew forth their pablum, without question or challenge, or do we call them out on their ideology? Have any of us caused any of them to rethink their blind adherence to their liberal talking points?


56 posted on 01/29/2024 11:36:40 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I got every one of my in-laws to change their mindset! Of course, Obama’s actions (after they took their union recommendations and voted for that idiot) helped me! LOL!

For the most part, my in-laws have been very respectful to me because I am one of the very few people in their family who spent time in the military.

We were always respectful in our disagreements, but Obama got contracts canceled, lost union jobs, and generally screwed up lots of their lives...that’s when they finally saw the light!


57 posted on 01/29/2024 11:46:51 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Finish the Wall and Deport them All!)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Slightly off topic...

I recently read that genetic mutation studies of contemporary Native Americans date First Arrival at just 13,000 to 15,000 years ago.

On the other hand, human artifacts - tools, jewelry, foot prints - appear to date back to the 22,000 to 25,000 time period.

Lots of good arguments for both periods.

And, lots of good questions, too.

Questions like - did the most recent Natives wipe out the original Natives with violence and/or disease?

58 posted on 01/29/2024 12:03:52 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: bitt

No more white man money.


59 posted on 01/29/2024 1:00:30 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: 9YearLurker
Doesn’t matter. The statement referenced is correct.

Whoop-tee-doo. It's not like it's a particularly original sentiment. It's completely derivative of the more well known Santayana quote: "Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
60 posted on 01/29/2024 1:02:17 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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