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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Thanks Jan <BR>
For your reply,sure you can use it<BR>
I have a few other stories I could share with you too.<BR>
One little uncomfortable event could always have been just an archaeologists bad day.<BR>
But I have several others which really make me wonder sometimes.<BR>
A British-born archaeologist who freely ads to his own private collection <BR>
To us Wendat/Wyandots he gives the mystic answer- “because the spirits give pipes” to him.<BR>
And another where Park Rangers ask children to actually police their parents for studying a pot sherd.<BR>
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The analytical dominant language of English creates thought patterns that are very different than our indigenous languages. “TAKING” patterns ...Collecting and filing of data, charting and graphing even of spirituality to seek to <BR>
Comprehend (based on its own limited presumptions) and it seeks to unravel, and <BR>
control that which has always been utter mystery. <BR>
When a pot sherd is taken by an archaeologist it is a sacred event...(because it is “information”)<BR>
when an artist (even a native artist) picks one up,to feel the past ,its a Federal violation of the Law.<BR>
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But foreign thought processes alter whatever is touched or taken...without possibly realizing it.<BR>
Latin based language-thought-systems have created a yearning to define all that exists.<BR>
It is a conquerors tongue...and still conquering, and will not stop its quest.<BR>
Knowledge becomes supreme diety, (Gnosis) Information is salvation...<BR>
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Fortunately,of course, it can also be used (as I’m doing here ) to question even itself.<BR>
And it can create technologies which are tools we can use.<BR>
But I’m concerned about its own subtle prostlytizing effects <BR>
And its unspoken claim to total objectivity<BR>
And.... I’ve noticed that converts seem to be increasing.<BR>
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Richard Zane Smith<BR>
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On 4/30/06 12:57 PM, "Jan Tucker" <jtucker@starband.net> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">Richard, thanks for your story, I'd like to share it with my applied anthropology class and race and ethnic relations class ....with your permission of course. More of your perspective needs to be heard and this story is a great way to share your perspective. I agree with you, and I can certainly talk to some of your points, however since this is a language and technology discussion group, I'm respectfully not going to. Let me however apologize for those who aren't willing to even have dialogue and share this quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Oct 15 1908-Apr 29th 2006. </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><B>"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; <BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." and </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."<BR>
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