Anthropology Association Apologizes to Native Americans for the Field’s Legacy of Harm
In 1901 the soon to be first president of the American Anthropological Association wrote that “through observation of a typical [Native American] tribe,” it was clear that “the savage stands strikingly close to sub-human species in every aspect.
Through a 21st-century lens, even those anthropologists with good intentions frequently contributed to the damage. In the early 20th century Franz Boas famously worked to debunk the racial hierarchy myth and promoted equal civil rights for Native Americans. But as a curator, he helped populate the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with the belongings, human remains and funerary objects of the tribes he advocated for.
When the museum was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1989, the collections it inherited held around 1,000 Native American remains, according to Swift. Today the museum holds fewer than 200. A little farther down the National Mall, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History still holds more than two million archaeological objects from Indigenous cultures within the U.S. and thousands of ancestral remains. Hundreds of thousands of items have been repatriated.
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