The great forgetting
Truthdig
by Eunice Wong
10/05/07
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is a monument to historical amnesia. The blond limestone building, surrounded by indigenous crops of corn, tobacco and squash, invites visitors on a guilt-free, theme park tour of Native American history, where acknowledgment of the American genocide is in extremely bad taste. … America’s brutal cycle of imperial invasion and occupation is as enduring as the cultivated illusion of its goodness. And the first step toward breaking this cycle and exposing this illusion is facing our history and ourselves. The National Museum of the American Indian feeds the mass amnesia that makes our national psychosis possible...
http://tinyurl.com/37o66j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=invasion
by Eunice Wong
10/05/07
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is a monument to historical amnesia. The blond limestone building, surrounded by indigenous crops of corn, tobacco and squash, invites visitors on a guilt-free, theme park tour of Native American history, where acknowledgment of the American genocide is in extremely bad taste. … America’s brutal cycle of imperial invasion and occupation is as enduring as the cultivated illusion of its goodness. And the first step toward breaking this cycle and exposing this illusion is facing our history and ourselves. The National Museum of the American Indian feeds the mass amnesia that makes our national psychosis possible...
http://tinyurl.com/37o66j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=invasion
rudkla - 9. Okt, 12:03
