Erin L. Thompson: The American Museum of Natural History holds the remains of 12,000 people from around the world. Most of them are Indigenous. I've spent a year learning the horrifying stories of how these bones got to New York - including talking to a man who found his grandfather in the museum.

The American Museum of Natural History holds the remains of 12,000 people from around the world. Most of them are Indigenous. I've spent a year learning the horrifying stories of how these bones got to New York - including talking to a man who found his grandfather in the museum.

A New York Museum's House of Boneshyperallergic.com The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

Thank you for writing about this. In 2018 Daniel Gross wrote an article on Herero remains held by the Museum and the efforts at the time of Herero activists to reclaim them: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Cited it in my article - a great piece!

Is this similar to Harvard holding the remains of 7000 indigenous people even though it’s against federal law? www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Native American leaders call for Harvard to return human remainswww.wgbh.org Leaked report says remains of thousands of Indigenous people in university’s museum collection

Horrible

I have discovered that my university still holds remains and sacred items. If all alums did the research on this issue and stopped donations until items were returned, it might make a difference.

Thanks for sharing - love following your work.

yikes

The museum was on my bucket list when I got to NYC years ago and I enjoyed it enough to take my wife when we went 2 summers ago. While there we found a display on indigenous peoples down a small hallway that led to an exit. It was pathetic and disappointing and we were amazed...

...such a large institution would give such short shrift to such an important and often horrific part of history. We've been to so many excellent museums that don't ignore that. Based on this and so many colonial displays, I'm not surprised.

Reprehensible.

I bet kimathi is up there... The king need to apologize and pay war reparations to Africans veterans.

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