Is Bushy Run Battlefield Park on an Indian reservation?
No, it’s a state park outside Pittsburgh. There are no federal Indian reservations east of the Mississippi River.
“Is Bushy Run Battlefield Park on an Indian reservation?”
Bushy Run Battlefield is Pennsylvania’s only recognized Native American battlefield. The acreage was acquired by the state and established as a state park in the 1920s. In August 2009, the state closed several Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission facilities. The PHMC is the governmental agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and due to a lack of funding as part of an ongoing budget crisis several facilities went on the block. Bushy Run Battlefield was one of the sites set to be closed. With the help of the Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society, the site’s volunteer organization, the museum has stayed open despite budget cuts. On May 5, 2010 the Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society came to an agreement with the PHMC to allow the volunteers to staff and operate the museum.
“...portrayals of Native Americans by non-Native reenactors at the park to be disrespectful...”
Too many times people with an agenda wish to disregard fact and trade it for marketing. The only way to make the re-enactment correct was to bring in the native American tribes for their input and approval prior to the re-enactment of the event. At the time of the battle (1763) Pennsylvania wasn’t a state yet (1787) so the only true contributors of the event were the Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo, and Huron tribes and the British. The state wasn’t involved. And after the way the native Americans have been punished for letting the Europeans come in and hammer them, I wouldn’t trust the trespassers either.
I think it not only correct, but admirable that both the state and the tribes are willing to work together to provide history in a correct educational manner with both sides cementing the agreement by contract to protect its future from carpet bagging politicians. Look how the Sioux were treated after Little Bighorn with the lies about Custer’s actions and the chasing and killing of the tribes for years after. And all they did was protect their land and resources they’d been on for centuries before the Europeans arrived and decimated the land most of it for gold prospecting while killing the food and harming the indians because they got in the way.
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In general, if you have to deal with this crappola; encourage a bunch of Indians (from India, next door to Pakistan) to dress up as American Indians. What are they gonna do, then?
Oh, a while back over 300 Indian tribes were polled (some guy working on a doctorate went to all of them) on whether or not it was OK with THEM to be called “Indians”. Except for the parasites calling themselves “native americans” or some such it was unanimous: “fine by us”. It’s like being called black or white, damn few are actually that color. But, as a label it gets the job done.