“At the Ethological Museum’s Humboldt Lab in Berlin, the play Captain Jacobsen recently premiered, featuring a performance by the group Das Helmi that culminated with brightly painted and masked dancers provocatively presenting what was supposed to be Natives of the Northwest during a potlatch feast. The dancers writhed intertwined and rode on each other’s backs […]
Category: Current Events
My Latest at ICTMN: Agreements Made on Humans Remains, Karl May Museum Must Follow-Through
Update 2017: The Karl May did NOT follow through, and only agreed to return ONE human remains to a tribe. The others they consider themselves caretakers, and refuse to respect multiple requests to return our relatives for respectful burial. One hopes they follow through in their agreement, as the Karl May Museum had sat on […]
Interview at Deutsche Welle TV: Karl May Museum Adamantly Refuses to Return Scalps
Update 2017: The Karl May continue refusing return of all of the remains. They only agreed to return ONE human remains to a tribe. The others they consider themselves caretakers of, and refuse to respect multiple requests to return our relatives for respectful burial. Viewable online HERE, my interview by Deutsch Welle TV, the largest […]
At Indian Country Today Media Network: “Karl May Museum Refuses Return of Native Scalps”
Update 2017: The Karl May continue refusing return of all of the remains. They only agreed to return ONE human remains to a tribe. The others they consider themselves caretakers of, and refuse to respect multiple requests to return our relatives for respectful burial. My latest article at Indian Country Today Media Network covering the […]
“We’re a Culture, Not a Costume” in Germany: Confronting and Informing the Ignorant
Rainald Grebe (artist/performer/comedian) slowly walks out on-stage in a slow, manner as if lacking intellect, while dressed in a pathetic mish-mash of Indianer (the German word for Native Americans of North America), and the audience immediately begins to laugh. That’s the intro for one of Rainald Grebe’s stage shows. It is not funny. Upcoming December, […]
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