NEWS CONFERENCE: Remains Of American Indians Found Stored On University Of North Dakota Campus
GRAND FORKS, ND (trfnews.i234.me) University of North Dakota President Andy Armacost and other faculty members held a news conference to explain how the remains and artifacts of American Indians found on campus will be moved back to their homes.
PRESS BRIEFING: Discovery of Native American Remains on University of North Dakota Campus
Shame on this university
UND existed before ND was even a sate. 1883. Imagine your a farmer in 1910 plowing a field. You come across these remains. At the time, the most responsible thing may have been to give it to a university. Rather than just keep plowing the field. There is likely very little known about remains that come out of the ground. Especially who they were or who they belonged too. Giving it back is the right thing to do. But I don't think UND should be demonized for having these remains. Universities are often the keepers of history through education.
Why would President Armacost say it's a mystery how this happened? Umm, racism is strong in North Dakota. The millions donated for the stadium from Engelstad, a Nazi lover, to keep the Fighting Sioux embedded in the stadium speaks volumes and is not a mystery. Start truth-telling UND and perhaps you can begin proper healing and repair.
I remember asking a person at UND many, many years ago if the school had indigenous artifacts. The professor on our tour said no and that we don't have stuff like that. This was in the 1980s on what I call the "come to our school" tour. I wonder if that professor would say the same thing today. Decades later does not make the pain disappear. I'm glad to see them being returned to the rightful nations. I understand that some museums in Europe are starting to return artifacts and remains to the different nations.
Please take the ads off this video. You have no right to profit and capitalize on our suffering.
Ans sad
This makes me angry
I would imagine that many university anthropology researchers have bones stored. And probably the Smithsonian. I admire the returning those valued artifacts. Excavations of burial grounds was very disrespectful. Apologies must be given.
Thank you. May God and First Peoples forgive us.
Good to see things sorted and sent to where they belong. But the tissue that appears like magic at 9:59 is well…What a great country we live in, most people always trying to improve it and do better as decades have gone by.
Unbelievable!