#seeing actual tools art and clothing made by natives was pretty cool but i dont trust the way the museum acquired them | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tittyinfinity · 2 years

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Yesterday my mom said we were going on a cave tour but we ended up going to a Racism Museum and then driving a golf cart on long sidewalks for 5 minutes of looking down into a canyon (there was no going into a cave)

#thamkfully the tickets were free. johnny morris gave em to my mom as a gift #wish his billionaife ass would just pay her enough tho #the museum was fucking insulting to mative ppl amd only called them *ndians #they tried to cover their asses some by saying many of the 150-250 yo native clothing was 'gifted'#idk man....the war jackets of well known native chiefs???#i imagine that many of them wouldnt have willingly gave them to colonizers #not to mention that one of them had a fucking bloodstain on it but that could be from anything ig #there werent labels on every one of them #a lot of the stuff was just recreations #there were a bunch of pictures of native ppl painted by white ppl #lots of stuff about how white people 'improved their lives by bringing items to trade'#they mentioned how they slaughtered ghe bison population....for CLOTHES. no mention of native genocide #i liked seeing the old pictures and stuff. plus they had actual skeletons of prehistoric animals found in missouri #got to see the flag that covered lincoln's coffin & his hair & his wife's acfual clothes (they were v beautiful she had style)#seeing actual tools art and clothing made by natives was pretty cool but i dont trust the way the museum acquired them #like idc if they took shit from lincoln thats fine #i think the most insulting thing tho was a painting of christopher columbus greeting a group of native ppl #in elaborate clothing while the natives were naked and it said #'meeting the savages'#yeah. racism museum

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