We don't belong in natural history museums!
In natural history museums, you'll find everything from bugs to grizzly bears, and for some reason this often includes non-Western cultures. This is a problem for various reasons -- one being the assumed white, Western, imperialist perspective of looking at indigenous cultures in glass boxes. Another is the general ambience of death in natural history museums -- when those bugs and grizzly bears are corpses pinned to a board or stuffed and posed mid-roar, what does that say about the museum's view of the Native cultures exhibited in the next room? Furthermore, many of the items displayed are sacred to a living culture -- they're things that Natives, had they been asked by the museum, might not want there.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/04/09/frank-waln-annihilation-154389
