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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.99,0:00:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A confession:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.83,0:00:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am an archaeologist\Nand a museum curator,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.83,0:00:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a paradoxical one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.64,0:00:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For my museum, I collect things,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.29,0:00:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I also return things\Nback to where they came from.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.82,0:00:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love museums because\Nthey're social and educational,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.40,0:00:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm most drawn to them\Nbecause of the magic of objects:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.81,0:00:28.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a one-million-year-old hand axe,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.32,0:00:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a totem pole, an impressionist painting
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.29,0:00:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all take us beyond our own imaginations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.23,0:00:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In museums, we pause to muse,\Nto gaze upon our human empire of things
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.68,0:00:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in meditation and wonder.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.32,0:00:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understand why US museums alone
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.57,0:00:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,host more than 850 million\Nvisits each year.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.39,0:00:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, in recent years, museums\Nhave become a battleground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.56,0:01:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Communities around the world\Ndon't want to see their culture
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.45,0:01:04.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in distant institutions\Nwhich they have no control over.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.78,0:01:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want to see their cultural treasures
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.95,0:01:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,repatriated, returned\Nto their places of origin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.68,0:01:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greece seeks the return\Nof the Parthenon Marbles,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.49,0:01:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a collection of classical sculptures\Nheld by the British Museum.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.42,0:01:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Egypt demands antiquities from Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.19,0:01:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New Zealand's Maori want to see returned
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.01,0:01:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ancestral tattooed heads\Nfrom museums everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.20,0:01:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet these claims pale in comparison\Nto those made by Native Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.86,0:01:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already, US museums have returned\Nmore than one million artifacts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.79,0:01:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 50,000 sets\Nof Native American skeletons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.89,0:01:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To illustrate what's at stake,\Nlet's start with the War Gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.46,0:01:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a wood carving
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.34,0:01:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made by members\Nof the Zuni tribe in New Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.40,0:02:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1880s, anthropologists\Nbegan to collect them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.62,0:02:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as evidence of American Indian religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.04,0:02:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They came to be seen as beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.12,0:02:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the precursor to the stark sculptures\Nof Picasso and Paul Klee,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.12,0:02:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping to usher in\Nthe modern art movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.56,0:02:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From one viewpoint, the museum\Ndid exactly as it's supposed to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.83,0:02:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the War God.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.27,0:02:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It helped introduce\Na little-known art form
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.72,0:02:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the world to appreciate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.20,0:02:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But from another point of view,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.74,0:02:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the museum had committed\Na terrible crime of cultural violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.59,0:02:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Zunis, the War God\Nis not a piece of art,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.64,0:02:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not even a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.64,0:02:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a being.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.52,0:02:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Zunis, every year,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.22,0:02:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,priests ritually carve new War Gods,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.47,0:02:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Ahayu:da,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.98,0:02:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breathing life into them\Nin a long ceremony.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.41,0:02:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are placed on sacred shrines
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.40,0:03:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they live to protect the Zuni people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.67,0:03:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and keep the universe in balance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.86,0:03:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one can own or sell a War God.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.18,0:03:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They belong only to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.44,0:03:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so Zunis want them back from museums
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.63,0:03:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they can go to their shrine homes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.53,0:03:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fulfill their spiritual purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.45,0:03:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a curator to do?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.46,0:03:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that the War Gods\Nshould be returned.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.69,0:03:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This might be a startling answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.34,0:03:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all, my conclusion\Ncontradicts the refrain
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.95,0:03:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world's most famous archaeologist:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.17,0:03:37.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That belongs in a museum!"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.75,0:03:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.71,0:03:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what Indiana Jones said,\Nnot just to drive movie plots,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.76,0:03:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to drive home the unquestionable good\Nof museums for society.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.05,0:03:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not come to my view easily.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.93,0:03:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in Tucson, Arizona,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.40,0:03:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fell in love\Nwith the Sonoran Desert's past.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.04,0:04:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was amazed that beneath\Nthe city's bland strip malls
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.04,0:04:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was 12,000 years of history\Njust waiting to be discovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.98,0:04:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 16 years old,\NI started taking archaeology classes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.27,0:04:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and going out on digs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.90,0:04:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A high school teacher of mine\Neven helped me set up my own laboratory
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.19,0:04:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to study animal bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.06,0:04:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in college,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.12,0:04:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to learn that my future career\Nhad a dark history.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.37,0:04:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starting in the 1860s,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.13,0:04:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native American skeletons\Nbecame a tool for science,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.28,0:04:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collected in the thousands
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.16,0:04:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prove new theories\Nof social and racial hierarchies.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.74,0:04:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native American human remains\Nwere plundered from graves,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.27,0:04:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even taken fresh from battlefields.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.37,0:04:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When archaeologists\Ncame across white graves,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.85,0:04:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the skeleton was often quickly reburied,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.31,0:05:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while Native bones were deposited\Nas specimens on museum shelves.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.38,0:05:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the wake of war, stolen land,\Nboarding schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.73,0:05:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laws banning religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.54,0:05:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anthropologists collected sacred objects
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.67,0:05:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the belief that Native peoples\Nwere on the cusp of extinction.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.16,0:05:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can call it racism or colonialism,\Nbut the labels don't matter
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.57,0:05:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as the fact\Nthat over the last century,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.40,0:05:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native American rights and culture\Nwere taken from them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.04,0:05:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1990, after years of Native protests,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.27,0:05:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the US government,\Nthrough the US Congress,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.73,0:05:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finally passed a law that allowed\NNative Americans to reclaim
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.10,0:05:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultural items, sacred objects\Nand human remains from museums.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.85,0:05:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many archaeologists were panicked.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.71,0:05:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For scientists,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.91,0:05:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can be hard to fully grasp\Nhow a piece of wood can be a living god
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.18,0:05:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or how spirits surround bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.43,0:06:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they knew that modern science,\Nespecially with DNA,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.25,0:06:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can provide luminous insights\Ninto the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.16,0:06:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the anthropologist\NFrank Norwick declared,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.74,0:06:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We are doing important work\Nthat benefits all of mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.89,0:06:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not returning anything to anyone."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.38,0:06:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a college student,\Nall of this was an enigma
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.38,0:06:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was hard to decipher.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.41,0:06:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did Native Americans\Nwant their heritage back
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.43,0:06:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the very places preserving it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.85,0:06:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how could scientists\Nspend their entire lives
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.10,0:06:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studying dead Indians
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.61,0:06:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but seem to care so little\Nabout living ones?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.22,0:06:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I graduated but wasn't sure\Nwhat to do next,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.44,0:06:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I traveled.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.90,0:06:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, in South Africa,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.62,0:06:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I visited Nelson Mandela's\Nformer prison cell on Robben Island.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.16,0:06:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had an epiphany.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.59,0:06:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here was a man who helped\Na country bridge vast divides
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.80,0:07:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to seek, however imperfectly,\Nreconciliation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.12,0:07:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm no Mandela, but I ask myself:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.85,0:07:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could I, too, plant seeds of hope\Nin the ruins of the past?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.59,0:07:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2007, I was hired as a curator
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.98,0:07:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Denver Museum\Nof Nature and Science.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.80,0:07:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our team agreed that unlike\Nmany other institutions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.04,0:07:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we needed to proactively confront\Nthe legacy of museum collecting.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.85,0:07:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started with\Nthe skeletons in our closet,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.09,0:07:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,100 of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.04,0:07:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After months and then years,\Nwe met with dozens of tribes
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.81,0:07:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to figure out how to get\Nthese remains home.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.84,0:07:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is hard work.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.22,0:07:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It involves negotiating\Nwho will receive the remains,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.32,0:07:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to respectfully transfer them,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.28,0:07:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where will they go.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.73,0:07:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native American leaders\Nbecome undertakers,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.36,0:07:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planning funerals for dead relatives\Nthey had never wanted unearthed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.11,0:07:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A decade later, the Denver Museum\Nand our Native partners
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.84,0:08:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have reburied nearly all\Nof the human remains in the collection.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.10,0:08:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have returned\Nhundreds of sacred objects.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.60,0:08:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've come to see\Nthat these battles are endless.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.84,0:08:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Repatriation is now a permanent feature\Nof the museum world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.31,0:08:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of tribes are waiting their turn.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.67,0:08:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are always\Nmore museums with more stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.77,0:08:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every catalogued War God\Nin an American public museum
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.70,0:08:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has now been returned -- 106, so far --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.96,0:08:34.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are more\Nbeyond the reach of US law,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.02,0:08:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in private collections\Nand outside our borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.22,0:08:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2014, I had the chance to travel\Nwith a respected religious leader
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.35,0:08:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Zuni tribe\Nnamed Octavius Seowtewa
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.22,0:08:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to visit five museums\Nin Europe with War Gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.68,0:08:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the Ethnological Museum of Berlin,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.36,0:08:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw a War God\Nwith a history of dubious care.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.44,0:09:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An overly enthusiastic curator\Nhad added chicken feathers to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.92,0:09:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its necklace had once been stolen.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.27,0:09:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the Musée du quai Branly in Paris,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.34,0:09:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an official told us that the War God there\Nis now state property
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.70,0:09:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no provisions for repatriation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.55,0:09:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He insisted that the War God\Nno longer served Zunis
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.49,0:09:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but museum visitors.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.24,0:09:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "We give all\Nof the objects to the world."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.49,0:09:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the British Museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.96,0:09:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were warned that the Zuni case\Nwould establish a dangerous precedent
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.100,0:09:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for bigger disputes,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.46,0:09:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the Parthenon Marbles,\Nclaimed by Greece.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.57,0:09:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After visiting the five museums,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.07,0:09:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Octavius returned home\Nto his people empty-handed.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.28,0:09:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He later told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.62,0:09:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It hurts my heart to see\Nthe Ahayu:da so far away.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.94,0:09:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all belong together.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.07,0:09:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a family member\Nthat's missing from a family dinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.29,0:09:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When one is gone,\Ntheir strength is broken."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.85,0:10:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish that my colleagues\Nin Europe and beyond
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.69,0:10:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could see that the War Gods\Ndo not represent the end of museums
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.19,0:10:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the chance for a new beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.86,0:10:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you walk the halls of a museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.48,0:10:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're likely just seeing\Nabout one percent
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.27,0:10:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the total collections.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.52,0:10:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rest is in storage.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.54,0:10:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even after returning\N500 cultural items and skeletons,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.35,0:10:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my museum still retains 99.999 percent\Nof its total collections.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.99,0:10:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though we no longer have War Gods,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.67,0:10:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have Zuni traditional pottery,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.08,0:10:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jewelry, tools, clothing and arts.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.46,0:10:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even more precious than these objects
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.31,0:10:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the relationships that we formed\Nwith Native Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.67,0:10:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the process of repatriation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.67,0:10:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we can ask Zunis\Nto share their culture with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.81,0:10:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not long ago, I had the chance\Nto visit the returned War Gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.26,0:11:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A shrine sits up high atop a mesa\Noverlooking beautiful Zuni homeland.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.47,0:11:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shrine is enclosed\Nby a roofless stone building
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.70,0:11:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threaded at the top with barbed wire
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.16,0:11:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ensure that they're not stolen again.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.55,0:11:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there they are, inside,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.92,0:11:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Ahayu:da,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.15,0:11:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,106 War Gods amid offerings\Nof turquoise, cornmeal, shell,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.58,0:11:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even T-shirts ...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.15,0:11:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a modern gift to ancient beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.31,0:11:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And standing there,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.04,0:11:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got a glimpse at the War Gods'\Ntrue purpose in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.52,0:11:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it occurred to me then
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.18,0:11:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we do not get to choose\Nthe histories that we inherit.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.04,0:11:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Museum curators today\Ndid not pillage ancient graves
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.20,0:11:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or steal spiritual objects,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.01,0:11:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we can accept responsibility\Nfor correcting past mistakes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.23,0:11:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can help restore dignity,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.50,0:11:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hope and humanity to Native Americans,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.96,0:12:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very people who were once\Nthe voiceless objects of our curiosity.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.40,0:12:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this doesn't even require us\Nto fully understand others' beliefs,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.50,0:12:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only that we respect them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.73,0:12:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Museums are temples to things past.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.41,0:12:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now they must also become\Nplaces for living cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.47,0:12:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I turned to walk away from the shrine,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.76,0:12:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I drank in the warm summer air,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.16,0:12:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I watched an eagle\Nturn lazy circles high above.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.48,0:12:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought of the Zunis,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.96,0:12:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose offerings ensure\Nthat their culture is not dead and gone
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.18,0:12:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but alive and well,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.97,0:12:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could think of no better place\Nfor the War Gods to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.07,0:12:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.24,0:12:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)