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« on: January 27, 2024, 12:46:10 am »Success:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/leading-museums-remove-native-displays-183325697.html
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https://us.yahoo.com/news/leading-museums-remove-native-displays-183325697.html
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Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules
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NEW YORK — 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.”
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Museums around the country have been covering up displays as curators scramble to determine whether they can be shown under the new regulations. The Field Museum in Chicago covered some display cases, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University said it would remove all funerary belongings from exhibition and the Cleveland Museum of Art has covered up some cases.
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“We’re finally being heard — and it’s not a fight, it’s a conversation,” said Myra Masiel-Zamora, an archaeologist and curator with the Pechanga Band of Indians.
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“We can say, ‘This needs to come home,’ and I’m hoping there will not be pushback,” Masiel-Zamora said.
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Much of the holdings of human remains and Native cultural items were collected through practices that are now considered antiquated and even odious, including through donations by grave robbers and archaeological digs that cleared out Indigenous burial grounds.
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You raid “white” graveyards & you can bet your a.s there would be one group screaming about the violation…
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Native American culture is for Native Americans. It isn’t for Caucasian entertainment or education.
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Oh bummer white man can't display stolen indigenous artifacts anymore..
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I would say the white man had zero respect for the Indians because they tried to wipe them off the earth.