Posted on 01/29/2024 8:03:24 AM PST by bitt
American historian Howard Zinn once said, “If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything.”
The American Museum of Natural History announced Friday that it will immediately close two halls showcasing Native American cultural artifacts in order to comply with updated federal regulations on repatriating indigenous remains and sacred objects to tribes, according to NBC News.
The museum is shutting down its Hall of Eastern Woodlands and Hall of the Great Plains, which together contain thousands of items related to Native American tribes. Smaller objects across other galleries will also be removed from public view, according to The New York Times.
The American Museum of Natural History will close 2 major halls exhibiting Native American objects. 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 items. pic.twitter.com/WEMnLcAS5P
— Lakota People’s Law Project (@lakotalaw) January 26, 2024
In December, President Biden signed an executive order directing new support for tribal self-governance. One action called on the Interior Department to finalize updates to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which President George H. Bush signed into law in 1990.
That federal law enabled tribes to reclaim ancestral remains and cultural artifacts removed from tribal lands.
The revised rules require museums and federal agencies to get tribal consent before displaying Native American human remains and sacred objects.
The new regulations give museums five years to return all Native American remains in their collections and also require them to defer to tribes’ oral histories when determining which groups to send sacred cultural patrimony items back to, according to The Times.
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Sort of like the Land o Lakes lady.
The problem with Native Americans is (I love them, but) they think everything they ever made, touched or even looked at is “sacred”.
Well Joe my oral history of you cannot be published in the norm.
Well, there is nothing more effective than completely erasing all knowledge and evidence of a culture for showing how non-racist we are.
/sarc
I pretty much discount EVERY SINGLE THING that comes out of the filthy mouth of the now-deceased Howard Zinn who is quoted in the article.
There was a time I had no idea who Howard Zinn was.
I had kind of a funny experience (well, at least it was funny to me) with my introduction to Howard Zinn…
My departed mother-in-law was, in life, a major-league liberal. She was a community organizer type of liberal. Now, I didn’t know this about her before I married my wife, but it wouldn’t have made a difference to me.
As the years went on, both my viewpoints and her viewpoints became known to each of us… and we entered a phase where she would say things deliberately to get a response out of me (or to see if I would just sit and say nothing)
Needless to say, I wasn’t about to sit and get baited by my mother-in-law, so I gave back in like kind when she initiated something. This went on for a relatively short period of time, then we kind of came to a mutual understanding. Neither one of us said a thing, but the understanding was there nonetheless that we would keep the peace by keeping our tongue. Not to say she wouldn’t occasionally poke at me (or me at her) but after that, that was pretty much all it was. I was kind of got the impression she was doing it just to see if I would stand up for myself.
In any case, I received a Christmas present from her one particular year. She knew that I was a history buff, and I read history prodigiously, so it was no surprise to me when I opened one of her Christmas presents and saw a history book. It was a fairly good-sized glossy volume, and I figured I’d put my feet up when I got home and begin reading.
When I got home, I opened the book up and began reading. At first, I was puzzled. “What the heck is this?” I read little bit further, and got even more perplexed. “What the hell kind of book is this?” I thought to myself.
I immediately begin skipping through the book, preferentially stopping in key areas in American history. As I reached each section, I would read sometimes only a sentence, or occasionally a paragraph. After I had been through multiple sections in this manner, I stood up angrily and exclaimed “screw this piece of crap!”
I walked out in the garage and through the book in the trash.
The name of the book was “The People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.
I was appalled. I had never seen a history book quite like that one. I was even more disturbed to find out later that this was an actual textbook used in public school classrooms all over the country. I’m still appalled at that thought.
In retrospect, it popped into my mind almost immediately as I was throwing the book in the trash, that this was perhaps my mother-in-law poking her finger in my eye. After a few more seconds of contemplation, I guessed that was not the case.
Knowing how my mother-in-law shops, particularly for Christmas presents, this book was almost undoubtedly on the bargain bookshelf at the front of the Borders bookstore when she walked in. I’d be willing to bet that she didn’t pay more than a few dollars for, because I doubt you could find it inside the store at regular price.
So, every time I hear the name Howard Zinn, I think of the anti-American far left political screed that was his book, that I had the pleasure to throw into a garbage can.
Howard Zinn?
Heard the name, but no idea.
Now I gotta look that one up...
Another completely unconstitutional, woke social-engineering edict from Fed.gov
Where did they get this power?
Just about every object except maybe arrow heads and stone tools would have been lawfully acquired by gift or purchase.
The arrow heads and stone tools were discarded as they were thought to be worthless.
The old Pez dispensers in the town dump that my family threw out in the 1960s are no longer mine.
I had a friend who was a Jew of Italian extraction.
Will his estate be getting a piece of Coliseum admission revenue?
I guess I don’t get what’s going on here. I would think that the current exhibitions within this museum and others are tastefully done and describe in good detail not only the items shown but give good background about the peoples that created the artifacts ? Isn’t that what museums are all about, the sharing of information and historical information of many peoples, places and cultures? Isn’t that generally a positive thing?
Thus abrogating the statute of limitations for conversion (the civil equivalent of theft crimes,) and divesting the successors of those who purchased at least some, maybe most, of these items of their property rights. In the immortal words of Clinton henchman Paul Begala: “Stroke of the pen, law of the land… cool.”
You beat me. See my no. 13
You’d think that if all that stuff was so sacred, they’d have taken better care of it and not scattered it all over the landscape or sold it.
That is why every area where the energy industry wants to develop resources is opposed as being on “sacred land.” The whole earth is sacred land, allegedly. Even when the resident tribe is all for development, the political activists will object. I can see why people might want to re-inter bones of ancestors, (although it is abundantly clear that the famous Kennewick Man was ancestor to no current northwest tribes,) but most of this is activism for the sake of activism. ie job security for instigators.
Howard Zinn was a propagandist. Not a historian.
Zinn has been a pox on the teaching of American history, but he’s right on this point.
Needless to say, I wasn’t about to sit and get baited by my mother-in-law, so I gave back in like kind when she initiated something. This went on for a relatively short period of time, then we kind of came to a mutual understanding. Neither one of us said a thing, but the understanding was there nonetheless that we would keep the peace by keeping our tongue. Not to say she wouldn’t occasionally poke at me (or me at her) but after that, that was pretty much all it was. I was kind of got the impression she was doing it just to see if I would stand up for myself.
This is sorta like the relationship I have with my whackjob SIL. The one that loves Nicolle WallAss.
I have no problem standing up for myself. I usually keep quiet out of deference to my brother. He's married to her. I'm not (and thank God for that!).
Like the names of sports teams, progressives are determined to obliterate all public vestiges of Native American culture and identity. As with pulling down statues of Confederates that now embarrass them, are they so ashamed of their big government predecessors’ genocide that they want to erase anything Native American from the public consciousness?
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