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When preservation becomes a form of cultural violence

The museum wants to repatriate our artifacts but the tribal council is split because some want them back and others think the museum preserves them better than we can.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community wrestles with the painful reality that survival sometimes requires compromising cultural integrity.

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