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The next time you visit a natural history museum, you are much less likely to see Indian artifacts there because of, as usual, the Left. Biden’s Interior Department announced rules in December that effectively sunset Indian exhibits in museums. And it did that in part due to pressure from five Senate members, including famous fake Indian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Now the consequences of that are here.
If you stop by Chicago’s Field Museum right now and find yourself in the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples, or the Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas, you will notice something about the display cases: Several are covered up.
That in itself is not unusual — who hasn’t been to a museum and seen a display case displaying nothing? What’s unusual is the reason: On Jan. 12, federal regulations concerning the exhibition and study of Native American remains and sacred artifacts were tightened…
Moreover, institutions must get “free, prior and informed consent” from Native tribes before the exhibition or research of sacred artifacts.
So museums are protecting themselves from the Biden crackdown by closing exhibits.
Last year at the Chicago History Museum, for instance, curators removed sacred Native American objects from the permanent exhibit “Chicago, Crossroads of America,” items that they expected would become subject to the anticipated changes in the regulations…
Two major exhibition halls and several other display cabinets at the American Museum of Natural History were empty and covered up on Friday morning as the museum shuttered all Native American-related displays to comply with new federal regulations…
The closures will result in almost 10,000 square feet of exhibition spaces being off-limits to visitors, the New York Times noted.
The museum could not provide a timeline for when the reviewed exhibits will reopen, the outlet said.
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.
At the American Museum of Natural History, segments of the collection once used to teach students about the Iroquois, Mohegans, Cheyenne, Arapaho and other groups will be temporarily inaccessible. That includes large objects, like the birchbark canoe of Menominee origin in the Hall of Eastern Woodlands, and smaller ones, including darts that date as far back as 10,000 B.C. and a Hopi Katsina doll from what is now Arizona. Field trips for students to the Hall of Eastern Woodlands are being rethought now that they will not have access to those galleries.
So students won’t be learning about American Indian culture thanks to Sen. Warren. Mission accomplished, I guess.
The word “Chicago” is an Indian word. These “woke” lefties are complete retards. I don’t remember which tribe came up with the word. The Miami or Kick Some Poo, or whoever.
The oldest anthropological remains in America are Salutrian, so maybe I’m a native American? My maternal family has been here since the 1500s, so maybe so.
I guess none of the publishing companies are paying for wampum cookbooks nowadays, so Lezzie Warren only has the D-Bag fake news media to print her crap. Who would eat any of her shit?
Nice blue jacket, Lezzie. I guess the red one had cockroaches on it so you had to wear your only other one. Way to dress for the occasion. SKAG.
Man, I bet she stinks. And she’s so ugly not even the DNC will invite her to a weenie roast.
Maybe the REAL Indians don’t mind people getting EDUCATED about authentic Indian art and crafts!
Why do the left have to RUIN everything? I know they are self loathing and MISERABLE people, but dang, why must they insist on making EVERYONE miserable??
Because misery loves company? 🙁
… to be fair …
… what the mainstream narrative narrates about “the natives” …
… is about as reliable as Brian Stelter
… and about as accurate as the X-Files …
So it’s not much of a loss …
The idea that knowledge is power is ancient. The plan to shut down access to knowledge can only have the aim of rendering the people powerless.
They’re not “liberals”, they’re power hungry Communists.
I wonder what real Native Americans have to say! Every time I hear Native American spokesman lately they say that liberals do not check with Native Americans before doing things like this! and that liberals do not speak for any Native tribes!
absolutely 100% true….no one ever consults with any tribe to change or delete indian derived names from anything….
Leftists are semi-literate barbarians and they want the rest of us to be to.
I don’t wants to be reading no books. Books am bad.
They call it Federal Regulations. We call it communist party at work. Only when the Democratic party is in charge?
It will be much easier for Fauxcahantus to continue faking her Cherokee heritage once those pesky exhibits are closed down. The only ‘Trail of Tears’ that younger generations will learn about is how Massachusetts got punked by a lying old white grandma.
I’m an Indigenous person….born and raised on an Indian reservation….
I was raised to understand and appreciate the traditions and culture of my race. My parent was insistent that we educate ourselves as time does go on and society changes while retaining and respecting my history….
It is greatly disturbing to me to have my race, ethnicity, culture and history totally erased from the American horizon.
It’s bad enough the Washington Redskin football team name was changed to the Washington Commanders. There is nothing commanding about washington except authoritarianism and marxism.!
Yes, I notice most Indians like the Sports teams named after them. That was done out of respect because Indians were considered fierce and tough. Jim Thorpe is still considered a hero to sports fans. Nobody complains about the Minnesota Vikings or the Notre Dame Fighting Irish – and the Notre Dame mascot is a drunken Leprechaun with his tiny fists up!
A quote from Orwell’s 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”
As of the left didn’t have anything else to ruin. They ruin everything they touch. I am so sick of these lunatic liberals, 3/4 of whom couldn’t name 5 Indian tribes or the Capitol of their state.
There used to be a Hiawatha Pageant near Chicago. It was held outdoors and was a narrated play based on “The Song of Hiawatha,” and had local actors dressed in authentic Indian (now “Native American”) garb to illustrate each scene. They no longer have it because, despite every effort to make everything as authentic as possible, the Left sued, saying it insulted and portrayed Native Americans as violent savages–which they were. The result is that the tens of thousands of fans of the pageant and all the future children will no longer see this beautiful artistic pageant, and not have any idea that such a story was ever told using live actors. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is rolling over in his grave!
When I was a kid in the 50’s, I found an indian arrowhead. I’m wondering if I should turn it into the government.
If you don’t turn it into the Smithsonian, the current government will probably have the FBI arrest you.
By all means. Those Indian-head pennies you’ve been hoarding also!
I’m surprised to hear that Liz knows about anything Indian…after all she is only 1/1,024. Indian.
Lizard Woman Warren their villainy gets thicker and thicker
How about changing the exhibits over to Cowboy Lore and their generational battle for the land that was theirs and what they had to face fighting the indigenous people to take repossession of it. Could be an Amazon movie series. Thought is worth exploring.
After viewing and pondering such an exhibit, any thinking young adult would have a more sophisticated idea about Ameria’s paleo history. But we can’t have that, can we Marxists? Young adults thinking about the past? How simple-minded. We must eliminate all pasts; paleo, colonial, 19th century, cold war. After all, such diversions are a waste of time and energy when that time and energy is better spent as an acolyte bringing forth the Marxist utopia. Get out the blowtorches, there’s another memorial statue to cut down!