Posted on 11/11/2021 2:16:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Royal British Columbia Museum in Vancouver announced last week that it would close sections of its First Peoples galleries, beginning this month. In January, the entire wing, located on the museum’s third floor, will close. The closure comes in response to calls by Indigenous activists to change how the museum discusses the colonization of British Columbia, privileging the stories of settlers over the Indigenous peoples who had long lived on the land.
“Decolonization of the museum’s galleries is important and long overdue,” said Daniel Muzyka, the museum’s acting CEO, in a statement. Closing the gallery, he added, is “necessary to begin the long-term work of creating new narratives that include under-represented voices and reflect the lived experiences and contemporary stories of the people in BC.”
In a statement, Melanie Mark, B.C.’s Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport and one of the province’s few elected First Nations politicians, said, “For too long, museums have been colonial institutions that exclude others from telling their own stories. We have an opportunity to turn the museum inside out, and it starts here, now, on the museum’s third floor.”
The Royal BC Museum has previously conducted decolonization efforts. In 2016, the museum returned 17 cultural objects to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations in a repatriation ceremony. The Museum still holds a large collection of Indigenous artifacts. The Royal BC Museum did not give specifics on how else it will address its colonial legacies and what the future of the First Peoples galleries will be.
Institutions elsewhere in North America have also begun to reframe how their exhibitions and displays that discuss the continent’s first inhabitants. In 2019, for example, the American Museum of Natural History in New York etched corrections on the glass displays of dioramas that described Indigenous people using demeaning and racist stereotypes. At the time, Lauri Halderman, the museum’s vice president for exhibition, told the New York Times, “We could have just covered it over. What was actually more interesting was not to make it go away but to acknowledge that it was problematic.”
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This is why you need physical copies of books in your possession.
The censors are coming, the censors are coming.
Yep.
It won’t help them but probably not hurt them. Mostly it is just bollocks.
Only temporarily.
The "firemen" are coming after that. (Fahrenheit-451)
Fixed it.
Offend the Woke!
Cheer while they cry!
Orwell on friggen steroids.
Better yet, why don’t all those of European stock just jump off a cliff with their children and cleanse the land of their Culture of Oppression, But first, remove ALL scientific and technological advances since the Stone Age, including iron, steel, gunpowder, maps, language and grammar in print and Horses (“Indians” had to walk until the Europeans got here. Live in TeePees and hogan type shelters, no heat, no soap, no electricity, not even a compass. Good luck, Bruce Cockburn notwithstanding, “wasn’t it clever what they used to do?” Yes, it was, and beautiful too, within the context of a short, painful and brutal life. So go ahead, ACT on your silly crusade against Western Civilization and see how you like it you stupid idiots.
Is it it better if First Nations people and non-First Nations people know they existed and their history?
to help the fight against imperialist running dogs, and capitalist pigs, they should donate all of the “art” to Goodwill or the Salvation Army.
We know about the Greeks, we know about the Romans, we know about the Egyptians and Phoenicians. It seems like it hurts us and them, not to know about them.
Some people still have a romantic notion that the original tribes lived in harmony and only did the Happy Dance with each other.
Yet when you try to move them from the Stone Age into the modern world they move out of their stone age comfort zone and must face the Modern World.
How it was in the past before the White Man came....
https://frontierpartisans.com/3942/crow-creek-massacre/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/9/crow-creek-massacre-in-1300s-remains-south-dakotas/
http://wkfl.asn.au/bk/crow_creek_history.htm
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/9019s304b
https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html
https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://westerndigs.org/skeletons-in-utah-cave-are-victims-of-prehistoric-war-study-says/
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/
http://westerndigs.org/infamous-mass-grave-of-young-women-in-ancient-city-of-cahokia-also-holds-men-study/
https://westerndigs.org/victims-of-human-sacrifice-at-cahokia-were-locals-not-captives-study-finds/
http://westerndigs.org/mass-grave-of-prodigal-sons-in-california-poses-prehistoric-mystery/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence
https://anthropology.net/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/
https://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%e2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
https://anthropology.net/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/
https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/glass/vol/1/14.htm
And this is just my short list of links to the Indigenous People’s Paradise. I have many more.
So when the de colorize do they paint everything white?
Neither did the Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians. Why erase any human history?
Institutions elsewhere in North America have also begun to reframe how their exhibitions and displays that discuss the continent’s first inhabitants
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they were hardly the first ... were many others here before they invaded, killed, raped, and slaved their way across the continent
Originally from Vancouver, this does not surprise me one bit. What’s more funny is that First Nations aka Native indians ALWAYS bitch for more money every budget year.
To those who dont know how “great” it is to be first nations in canada you:
DONT pay taxes (not even take out delivery)
granted minimum 5 hectares of land
FREE education paid for by taxpayers
receive minimum $2100 per month (spend on wacky tabacky)
and they still blame the white man.
New “decolonized” exhibits are coming that will show the brutal, evil white man as he truly was.
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