Who owns the past transcript

Indian people were not only being heard; their moral claims on their past were being turned into law. Now a new case is testing these claims. The discovery of a 9,year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, has re-ignited the conflict between anthropologists and Indian people over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indian lands. At the heart of the conflict are two very different and seemingly irreconcilable belief systems.

By exploring the historical events that led to the passage of NAGPRA and the current controversy over Kennewick Man, the film provides a clear context for understanding the issues involved. Perhaps most important, the film illuminates the two very different world views that inform this controversy and that will continue to have tremendous impact on Indian people and on all Americans long into the future. It opens up many fruitful avenues of discussion about Indian peoples as well as the future well-being of the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology.

It does not attempt to resolve the issues it presents nor to tilt the story toward one side or the other. On the contrary, it presents the material in a way that enables students to understand the complexity of the issues and to analyze and discuss them themselves. But a case tested these claims, and Who Owns the Past? The discovery of a 9,year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and Indian people over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indian lands.

Producer: Riffe, Jed. November 11, Hunt, T. Should museums return their colonial artefacts? The Guardian. Museum of Every Day Life. A Meditation on Encyclopedias and the Obsession of Collecting. Stanford University.

Buying, selling, owning the past. Woldeyes, Y. Repatriation: why Western museums should return African artefacts? The Conversation. Worley, Z. The Chicago Maroon. Today we will be exploring the topic of the ownership of the past and the colonial narrative in Western museums. In one of the AEPP classes, we were listening to a presentation on Lincoln Park that is a neighborhood located in Chicago, and the presenter also gave some information about the famous zoo within the neighborhood.

Then, we started to discuss the functions of zoos and animal well-being. Some people in the class were in favor of zoos, and others were completely against them. I also argued that animals such as polar bears, tigers, monkeys, and snakes belong to a different natural environment and they should not be kept hundreds of miles away from their homeland.