Vancouver Museum Closes Part of Its First Peoples Gallery in Effort to Decolonize

ARTnews ^ | Nov. 11, 2021 | SHANTI ESCALANTE-DE MATTEI

[nickcarraway]

What percentage do you have to be?

[max americana]

When I was in high school, my classmates joked it was better to just marry an FN chick than actually work, and we would be on easy street. I used to work at KFC during summer time and the order from the “reservations” were given priority. It will always state on the system the delivery charge is waived and they get 50% off.

It was just insane. And when our delivery guys deliver miles into the damn isolated area, they NEVER TIP.

[Bernard]

So the exhibits will be moved to some other museum that nobody goes to, ensuring that eventually the Indian culture in North America will entirely disappear. Even the Land O Lakes girl is gone.

Sort of like how the noise makers want to tear down statues of Confederate heroes. At some point, the Civil War will go down the memory chute, and there will be no evidence that slavery ever happened in this country. Which will take away the argument for reparations. Sounds like a White Supremacist plot.

[consult]

Typical leftist feel good crap.

I suspect that even the poorest ones alive today live longer/healthier and better (less conflict, more comfort) lives than today than their ancestors did over 10,000 years.

[wally_bert]

Paging Oskar Werner.

[stormer]

Royal BC Museum is in Victoria, not Vancouver. There is a world of difference between the two.

[The Louiswu]

This is why you need physical copies of books in your possession.

Yes

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway. I liked the fake Viking zombie story better. Wanna decolonize the Americas? Build millions of dugout canoes and paddle back to Asia. I was born here, I'm staying right here.

[SunkenCiv]

First Peoples galleries

s/b

Second-to-last Peoples galleries

[Antoninus]

More and more, it looks to me like “de-colonizing” our history equals erasing American Indians and blacks all together. Anyone else noticing that?

[Verginius Rufus]

Thanks for the correction.

There is a museum in Vancouver, across the street from the University of British Columbia campus, which has a lot of interesting "First Nations" artifacts including totem poles. I don't recall the name of that museum offhand. I have been there and was wondering how anyone could find any of it offensive. But to the Perpetually Indignant (P. J. O'Rourke's phrase), there is always something to be up in arms about.

[Kevmo]

I was born here, I’m staying right here.
***Doesn’t that make us indigenous?

[SunkenCiv]

It does.