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  • June 2008
    • At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      (Newser) - Revisiting Chicago’s Field Museum—an institution enshrined in loving childhood memories—for its “The Ancient Americas” exhibit is a sore disappointment, PJ O’Rourke writes in the Weekly Standard . Once a bastion of public scholarship so solemn it contained a section devoted to useful varieties of wood, the Field now panders unabashedly to the most intellectually lazy, politically correct misconceptions of the lives of the original Americans. More »

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      America   museum   Native Americans   Aztecs   P.J. O'Rourke   Field Museum   Christopher Columbus   political correctness   Incas

  • December 2007
    • Let Retired Chief Illiniwek Rest in Peace

      Let Retired Chief Illiniwek Rest in Peace

      (Newser) - The NCAA leaned on the University of Illinois to replace its "hostile and abusive" Native American mascot, Chief Illiniwek, back in February, and the Chief no longer dances on the Illini's fields and courts. But his story is far from over, writes Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune. Chief support groups linger, and some have serious agendas. More »

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      NCAA   racism   Illinois Fighting Illini   political correctness

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