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2. these artifacts should be returned to the Hopi

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:31 AM

Apr 2013

They were likely stolen and the French have no business having them in their possession nor should they be selling them. They should give them back to the Hopi people.

It is like selling off the remnants of a people, many that are now dead and gone because of genocide. The Hopi and other Native Americans have been traumatized enough already and it is a disgrace and it is illegal to do sell their belongings here in the USA ref: the Antiquities Act of 1906 with stronger legislative actions passed in the late 1990s.

Just a few of the locations involved in southwest of America can be found here:

http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/Themes/Conservation/The-Antiquities-Act-of-1906.aspx

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It will be interesting to see what the ruling is BeyondGeography Apr 2013 #1

these artifacts should be returned to the Hopi CountAllVotes Apr 2013 #2