olivermoss | (Reply)

Oof, yeah, sounds like a good program but if it's at a natural history museum that's a very tricky situation. With the Smithsonian they can just transfer stuff out of the natural history museum into another one of their museums. What they were doing, but have since corrected, was just straight up horrible.

Having modern Native artists is important because we talk about Native people in the past tense so much. Like, they still exist. Some are even members of our community, and so many people either don't get that on an emotional level or they just like their ear gets used to certain conjugations around talking about Native people and they repeat the past tense thing without realizing it.

British history is entrenched in the idea that they are the heirs of the power of the Roman Empire. Some Arthurian stuff is based on the idea that the power of his reign was being of their line. And people being weird about Egypt and Ancient Egypt is a whole, massive thing.

More museums like the Nordic Heritage ones would be great. The weird combination of being disregarded but also Scandi immigrants were (massive generalization here) mostly mostly comparatively privileged, so we kinda just did our own thing. We weren't chased here by the law, famine, religious stuff, etc.