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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,823 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 03:38 PM Aug 2025

Do You Believe MAGA Will Try To Erase The Smithstonian National Museum of the American Indian


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Do You Believe MAGA Will Try To Erase The Smithstonian National Museum of the American Indian (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2025 OP
yes Skittles Aug 2025 #1
Wait bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #2
I'll play contrarian, not erased, altered GusBob Aug 2025 #3
Agreed, and the same with the Museum of African American History. intheflow Aug 2025 #5
Yep. A northeastern tribe won the bid to build a casino in a location djt wanted. allegorical oracle Aug 2025 #12
That's one of the better ones to visit. Typical Trump, destroy everything good. TheBlackAdder Aug 2025 #4
Best museum cafeteria on the Mall Prairie Gates Aug 2025 #6
Got some bad news for Republicans. The Roanoke Colony (aka Lost Colony) mystery has been solved. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Aug 2025 #7
It is a stunning museum. Not to be missed. LuckyLib Aug 2025 #8
whenever they get around to it.... Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #9
The featured exhibit will be on how John Wayne tamed the west. NT Happy Hoosier Aug 2025 #10
I wonder how MAGAts explain Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn in Montana. ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2025 #11
The Sioux were Democrats? One horse, Comanche, survived. Used to be displayed at the allegorical oracle Aug 2025 #13

bucolic_frolic

(54,820 posts)
2. Wait
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 03:47 PM
Aug 2025

Do you mean the Christians who converted indigenous peoples who agreed with them and slaughtered the rest? The ones who separated indigenous children from their parents and shipped them off to learn American values at boarding schools? The ones who made treaties and failed to deliver on what they promised? You think these guys would try to erase culture in the name of not erasing culture? Who could believe that?

GusBob

(8,224 posts)
3. I'll play contrarian, not erased, altered
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:08 PM
Aug 2025

Trump has well known animosity towards NA's Jealous of their casinos

We all know he is a "punch down" guy. And he loves to insult anyone he can

Perhaps he will turn the exhibits into "to the victors go the spoils" brag fest. Like celebrating all the massacres and filling the place up with plunder and stolen artifacts, skeletons etc. Ginned-up portrayals of Natives as savages, etc Old saying: history is written by the winners

intheflow

(30,151 posts)
5. Agreed, and the same with the Museum of African American History.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:28 PM
Aug 2025

Altered into something that paints both groups as being tremendously helped by white people (men) instead of terrorized and brutalized by them. Indians will become noble savages again, and Black folks will be the happiest of Uncle Toms who know their lives are inferior to the Master.

allegorical oracle

(6,402 posts)
12. Yep. A northeastern tribe won the bid to build a casino in a location djt wanted.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:40 AM
Aug 2025

Saw video from that hearing. Donald blurted out, "they don't even look like Indians." Guess he figured that NAs don't wear suits -- only leathers and feathers.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
4. That's one of the better ones to visit. Typical Trump, destroy everything good.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:27 PM
Aug 2025

I guess the Air & Space Museum will be next.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,999 posts)
7. Got some bad news for Republicans. The Roanoke Colony (aka Lost Colony) mystery has been solved.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:46 PM
Aug 2025

When it is released to the public, it will be too colossal to wipe out of American history. Let's put it this way: Stephen Miller will probably have a fucking. heart. attack!

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,837 posts)
11. I wonder how MAGAts explain Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn in Montana.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:24 AM
Aug 2025

I tours those grounds in late February of 2005.

I saw the markers that noted where Col. George Custer and others fell to their deaths , even the horses, over 3 hot days in June of 1876. At the battlefield sight is a monument to the brave Sioux warriors under Sitting Bull. Nothing that the Battle at Little Big Horn was over the discovery of Gold in the Black Hills and Deadwood in South Dakota. The US Government at the time, reneged on the treaty set with the Lakota Sioux about territorial lands. The rest is history.

allegorical oracle

(6,402 posts)
13. The Sioux were Democrats? One horse, Comanche, survived. Used to be displayed at the
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:44 AM
Aug 2025

American History museum.

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