Sally,
No it's not appropriate - but the mistake was made over 100 years ago.  Natural history museums have developed superb collections as a result of this mistake.  I've recently seen the Field Museum in Chicago work hard and well to adress the humanistic issues which were for so long ignored.
Greg Koos
McLean Co. Museum of History

Sally Cavins wrote:

> Numerous anthropologist and Native Americans don't believe it
> appropriate for anthropology (ethnology, archaelogy, and/or physical
> anthropology) to be a subject matter presented in a natrural history
> museum.  Should it, or should it not?  What is your opinion and why?
>
> --
> Sally A. Cochran
> Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
> 2401 Chautauqua
> Norman, Oklahoma 73072
>
> 405/325-4713
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