And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

The following article appeared in the New Hampshire paper, Union Leader. 
The man is entitled to his opinion...and likewise I believe deserving of ours.  
Thank you Nokwisa for sending this to everyone's attention..:)

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Don Feder:
  Bias of Smithsonian's Indian museum will indict America
http://www2.theunionleader.com/articles/Articles_show.html?article=3694&archive=1

    BY THE SHORES OF THE POTOMAC, near the shining big-sea water,
  will stand the contentious wigwam of the Smithsonian — its National
  Museum of the American Indian, to be precise. 
    Last week, while the Senate was cutting funding for the Brooklyn Museum
  of Art for its painting of a feces-smeared Virgin Mary, a more far-reaching
  assault on American values went largely unnoticed. 
    Construction was begun on the Smithsonian's Indian museum on the Mall
  in Washington, D.C. The $110 million project (two-thirds taxpayer funded)
  is expected to attract six million visitors a year. 
    A New York Times story on the ground-breaking ceremony provided a
  glimpse of political correctness to come. The Times noted that the museum
  "will not only celebrate and display continuing tribal cultures but work to set
  the record straight." 
    The museum's director, Richard West, said the institution would be
  dedicated to "presenting the Indian perspective." By "Indian perspective,"
  West means the fulminations of activists who think Columbus was the
  father of genocide and the 7th Cavalry was the S.S. on horseback. 
    To emphasize the point, those attending the ceremony sang the anthem of
  the American Indian Movement, a militant gang best known for its terrorist
  action at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975, which left two FBI agents
  dead. 
    The Smithsonian has passionately embraced the multiculturalist agenda. It
  sees all of history in the reflected light of the PC trinity — race, gender and
  class. 
    This dogmatism was most conspicuous in a 1995 exhibit on the end of
  World War II in the Pacific and the Hiroshima bombing. The exhibit's
  original script (revised after protests by veterans) described the conflict as "a
  war of revenge against the Japanese," who were "fighting to preserve their
  culture against imperialism." 
    It was as if the rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March,
  "comfort women" and other atrocities by the Imperial Army had never
  happened. 
    Even art isn't safe from the Smithsonian's revisionists. A 1991 exhibit
  ("The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920")
  was described by a writer for the Washington Post as "reducing the saga of
  America's Western pioneers to little more than victimization, disillusionment
  and environmental rape." 
    Scientists complained that the exhibit "Science in American Life" could
  have been scripted by the Unabomber. Joan Shields, a professor of
  chemistry at Long Island University, called it a "revisionist historical display
  of science as a litany of moral debacles, environmental catastrophes, social
  injustices and destruction by radiation." 
    The Smithsonian's latest rewriting of history is its book "Timelines of the
  Ancient World — A Visual Chronology From the Origins of Life to A.D.
  1500." While major events in the development of Buddhism, Hinduism and
  Islam are meticulously detailed, the book moves from B.C. to A.D. without
  acknowledging the birth of Jesus. The spiritual revolution wrought by the
  Jewish people is similarly ignored. 
    The Smithsonian was established in 1846 for the "increase and diffusion of
  knowledge among men." Today, it exists to exhort. 
    At the Smithsonian, history becomes a self-criticism session, where the
  sins of the West, evils of capitalism and the toxicity of the Judeo-Christian
  tradition are confessed and atoned. 
    Shortly, the Smithsonian will take to the warpath again. Its National
  Museum of the American Indian will attack the legitimacy of our founding
  and Westward expansion. From Plymouth Rock to the closing of the
  frontier, it will present the "Indian perspective." But you'll get to pay for it. 
    The complex story of America's native cultures should be told without bias
  or belligerence. Instead, the museum will subject visitors to a sanitized,
  one-sided history and victim-group mythology. 
Will this effort to "set the record straight" include celebrations of ritual
  cannibalism practiced by the Mohawks and Chippewas, torture techniques
  perfected by the Apaches, the quaint custom of scalping or the degraded
  status of women in most Indian tribes? 
    America may be the only nation in history to subsidize its own destruction.
  When the multiculturalists, academic Marxists, perpetually aggrieved
  minorities and sensitivity gestapo finally succeed in pulling down our
  national house, over the ruins should be erected a sign reading "Your Tax
  Dollars At Work." 
    Don Feder is a columnist with Creators Syndicate. 
Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine 
of international copyright law.
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