Museums Shuttering Native American Exhibits - More Museum and Arts Suicide

[JBG]

The museum suicide and cultural destruction has gone national (link). I am personally in mourning; the Museum of Natural History is closing to exhibits I grew up with, the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains exhibit. Can whatever brainchild came up with these regulations fine me a significant number of offended Native Americans? Excerpts:

The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its 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 cultural items.

“The halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values, perspectives and indeed shared humanity of Indigenous peoples,” Sean Decatur, the museum’s president, wrote in a letter to the museum’s staff on Friday morning. “Actions that may feel sudden to some may seem long overdue to others.”

The museum is closing galleries dedicated to the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains this weekend, and covering a number of other display cases featuring Native American cultural items as it goes through its enormous collection to make sure it is in compliance with the new federal rules, which took effect this month.

“Repatriation isn’t just a rule on paper,” Newland said, “but it brings real meaningful healing and closure to people.”

Why would actual Native Americans, including leaders, want to discourage education of the population about America's past? Unless the plan is to remove everyone post-colonization as well, leaving the museums an empty shell. I know that Americans are now being made to mourn not only their history, but their lives as well.

Message: We are bad people for being here.

 

[Vastator]

Erasing peoples historical memory...

 

[Hellbilly]

Why would actual Native Americans, including leaders, want to discourage education of the population about America's past?

They are sacred. They don’t belong to white America. If you need to learn history, use google. White people have taken enough.
On a personal note I applaud this.

 

[JBG]

They are sacred. They don’t belong to white America. If you need to learn history, use google. White people have taken enough.
On a personal note I applaud this.

And how is vandalizing museum collections going to help them, especially since the specimens were curated a long time ago?

 

[Hellbilly]

And how is vandalizing museum collections going to help them, especially since the specimens were curated a long time ago?

It’s about returning what you took.
It doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to us.

 

[Hellbilly]

Erasing peoples historical memory...

Feel free to teach Native history in school. Actual history.

 

[1srelluc]

That's why you go to places like the Cody Museum for all the really cool NA stuff.

Dupe BTW.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

Nobody cares about those fucking drunks.

 

[Vastator]

It’s about returning what you took.
It doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to us.

If it weren't for these museums these items would be lost to time, and you'd know nothing of them. You're a fool.

 

[Hellbilly]

If it weren't for these museums these items would be lost to time, and you'd know nothing of them. You're a fool.

They should go back to the tribes they were taken from.

 

[Vastator]

They should go back to the tribes they were taken from.

My statement stands.

 

[Hellbilly]

My statement stands.

Your opinion is irrelevant

 

[Vastator]

Your opinion is irrelevant

Sure kid. So you'll be happy know that future generations will never see these items preserved, and explained in the historical context of this nation... Gonna be kind of hard to sell your butt hurt then. But you do you.
The natives are all but wiped out. Might as well dispose of the artifacts while your at it. Eventually no one will ever know the natives existed...

 

[Hellbilly]

Sure kid. So you'll be happy know that future generations will ne er see these items preserved and explained in the historical context of this nation... Gonna be kind of hard to sell your butt hurt then. But you do you.
The natives are all but wiped out. Might as well dispose of the artifacts while your at it. Eventually no one will ever know the natives existed...

After over 500 years,

 

[hjmick]

They should go back to the tribes they were taken from.

At the very least, tribes should grant permission to museums to continue exhibiting artifacts. Absent that, they should be returned to the proper tribes whenever possible. All human remains should be returned post haste.

 

[Vastator]

After over 500 years,

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Yeah, yeah, 1/4 breed. And I'm being generous. Just ring up my tax free smokes, and get back to the casino.

 

[Moonglow]

Erasing peoples historical memory...

How many times did you feel sorry for the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears displays?

 

[JBG]

At the very least, tribes should grant permission to museums to continue exhibiting artifacts. Absent that, they should be returned to the proper tribes whenever possible. All human remains should be returned post haste.

That will cost a hefty bribe to the "leaders" of the tribes.

 

[Moonglow]

That will cost a hefty bribe to the "leaders" of the tribes.

Teach those white devils not to steal.

 

[JBG]

Yeah, yeah, 1/4 breed. And I'm being generous. Just ring up my tax free smokes, and get back to the casino.

That's why Trump called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas." Was he childish? Yes. But he had a point.

How many times did you feel sorry for the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears displays?

You need to display that in all its disgusting detail. No doubt about that.