When Worlds Collide: The American past meets modern museum doctrine.

The Weekly Standard ^ | June 9, 2008 | P.J. O'Rourke

[Sherman Logan]

Your family and other group members pause to give thanks and honor the mammoth whose life was taken . . .

Just about all "indigenous peoples," not just Native Americans, have similar rituals.

[Sherman Logan]

The exhibit points out that disease was the chief cause of suffering after European contact. Therefore, the horrors that beset The Ancient Americas following 1492 would have happened if the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María had been manned by Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama, and Bono.

The disease-caused die-off (up to 90 to 95%) in the Western Hemisphere would also have occurred if the Aztecs had "discovered" Europe. At the time, it was utterly inevitable once the two isolated groups made contact.

[rellimpank]

—bflr—

[Kozak]

I love PJ. We must have bumped into each other at the Field Museum as kids. I’ll never forget being in the basement in front of the Egyptian Mummies and having the lights go off for musuem closing....

If he thinks they ruined the Field Museum he should see what the PC Nazi’s have done to the Musuem of Science and Industry...

[moneyrunner]

give thanks and honor the mammoth

I call Bullshit.

[Sherman Logan]

As I said, similar rituals are almost ubiquitous among primitive peoples throughout the world. It is generally believed that those who don’t follow them will lose favor with the great Mammoth (or buffalo, or whatever) in the sky and never be successful hunting again.

Which is not to say curators aren’t full of it.

I wonder if they covered the Crow Creek Massacre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Creek_Massacre Not a white guy in sight.

[Cheburashka]

Your family and other group members pause to give thanks and honor the mammoth whose life was taken . . .

Just about all “indigenous peoples,” not just Native Americans, have similar rituals.

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Maybe your “indigenous people” have a ritual to honor the deceased mammoth. If so, that's cool. Mine has a ritual to honor God for providing the mammoth, but the mammoth (or the cow, which seems much more usual these days. Mammoths seem to have fallen out of fashion.) itself is not celebrated.

[livius]

Don’t forget how the Native Americans completely shocked the early settlers of the West by running out and having sex with the carcasses of the buffalo they had just slaughtered. Another charming custom.

[Travis McGee]

Give me that old time religion!

[livius]

This was a great and very amusing article! Thanks for posting.

[ovrtaxt]

Ice Age or no, everyone in the talentlessly painted murals is naked. Nipples seem to have been vague and smudgy in ancient times, and a mastodon or giant ground sloth was always getting in between mural viewers and your genitals.

PJ is awesome! lol

[Skooz]

bump

[ovrtaxt]

I just watched that for the first time the other day- unbelievable movie! Mel Gibson is a genius.

[Travis McGee]

I have the DVD, and I enjoyed the “how they made it” and the voiceover version with Mel and the producer discussing it scene by scene as much as I enjoyed the movie.

[WVKayaker]

Your family and other group members pause to give thanks and honor the mammoth whose life was taken . . ....

...every time I light the Weber!

[Onelifetogive]

If you want to have some fun, go to the info desk of the new Native American Museum in Washington DC and ask where the Scalping Exhibit is...

[ovrtaxt]

I’ll have to check that out, thanks.

[wintertime]

"Anthropologists don't fully know the difference between right and wrong." ( from the article)

Anthropologists don't fully know the difference between right and wrong, because they have been thoroughly and completely indoctrinated in our Marxist infested and controlled K-12 schools, colleges, and unversities!

The following is from: Salt & Light, The Great Commission & Who's Responsible for Educating Your Children

If the statistics are horrific for Christian youth, they must be worse from children who are not Christian.

The research data on the success of the public schools in indoctrinating Christian youth with humanistic or neo-pagan worldviews is overwhelming. The Nehemiah Institute's worldview PEERS test shows that 83-percent of the children from committed Christian families in public schools adopt a secular humanist or Marxist socialist worldview. At the SBC's 2002 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life reported, among other disturbing things, that 88-percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at age 18. Barna Research reports that only 9-percent of born-again teens believe in moral absolutes, and more than half believe that Jesus sinned while He was on earth. We believe the fact that 80-percent of Christian families send their children to public schools is a prime reason for this lost legacy.

[The Great RJ]

Perhaps the exhibits should include depictions of “buffalo jumps”. Prior to the introduction of horses in North America by the Spanish, native peoples sometimes resorted to causing herds of buffaloes to stampede and diverted the paniced herd to high bluffs or cliffs where large numbers would fall to their deaths and then be butchered on the spot by the natives. There are several sites in North America where this frequently occurred.