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       Re: Museum decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 27, 2024, 12:46 am
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       [quote]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.
       ...
       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.[/quote]
       Woke comments:
       [quote]You raid “white” graveyards & you can bet your a.s there
       would be one group screaming about the violation…[/quote]
       [quote]Native American culture is for Native Americans. It isn’t
       for Caucasian entertainment or education.[/quote]
       [quote]Oh bummer white man can't display stolen indigenous
       artifacts anymore..[/quote]
       [quote]I would say the white man had zero respect for the
       Indians because they tried to wipe them off the earth.[/quote]
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