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☆ Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
  + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
NEW YORK AP —Tucked within the expansive Native American halls of the American Museum of Natural History is a diminutive wooden doll that holds a sacred place among the tribes whose territories once included Manhattan. The doll, also called Nahneetis, is just one of some 1,800 items museum officials say they’re reviewing as they work to comply with the requirements while also eyeing a broader overhaul of the more than half-century-old exhibits. We need them close.”Sean Decatur, the New York museum’s president, promised tribes will hear from officials soon. The American Museum of Natural History, he noted, is one of New York’s major tourism draws and also a mainstay for generations of area students learning about the region’s tribes. He suggests museums use replicas made by Native peoples so that sensitive cultural items aren’t physically on display.
Persons: ”, Joe Baker, ” Sean Decatur, Lance Gumbs, ” Gumbs, “ There’s, ” Gordon Yellowman, ” Yellowman, “, Bridgette Russell, Todd Mesek, Nicole Rura, Chuck Hoskin, Baker, ” Baker Organizations: American Museum of, American, Protection, Lenape, York, Eastern, Northwest Coast Hall, Cheyenne, Arapaho Tribes, New, Field, Repatriation, Cleveland Museum, Harvard, Peabody Museum’s, Cherokee Nation, Peabody, Cherokees, Delaware Nation Locations: Manhattan, Delaware, Eastern Woodlands, Great, Decatur, New, Oklahoma, New York, Nebraska, Chicago, America, Ohio, Alaska, American, “, Ontario
☆ Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules
  + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Julia Jacobs | Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its 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 cultural items. “The halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values, perspectives and indeed shared humanity of Indigenous peoples,” Sean Decatur, the museum’s president, wrote in a letter to the museum’s staff on Friday morning. That will leave nearly 10,000 square feet of exhibition space in the storied museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan off-limits to visitors; the museum said it could not provide an exact timeline for when the reconsidered exhibits would reopen. “Some objects may never come back on display as a result of the consultation process,” Decatur said in an interview. “But we are looking to create smaller-scale programs throughout the museum that can explain what kind of process is underway.”
Persons: Sean Decatur, ” Decatur, ” Organizations: American Museum of, Eastern Locations: Eastern Woodlands, Manhattan
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