
Skeletons In The Closet
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The Protests of Native Americans in the Natural History Museum
In 19 89 and 19 90, federal legislation was passed that stopped most excavations of native american graves. 30 years after the law passed, the natural history museum is still holding on to thousands of native remains. Chip says that's because in the us. The field of archaeology was essentially built on studying those remains. For more than a century, what it meant to be a good archaeologist was to dig things up then preserve them forever.
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