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Erin L. Thompson

@artcrimeprof

Art crime prof @CUNY. Author: Smashing Statues @wwnorton https://t.co/CcswbHzdKO. Also: art forgery; repatriation; museum shenanigans. Queer; she/her.

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The American Museum of Natural History holds the remains of 12,000 people from around the world. Most of them are Indigenous. I've spent a year learning the horrifying stories of how these bones got to New York - including talking to a man who found his grandfather in the museum:

The American Museum of Natural History holds the remains of 12,000 people from around the world. Most of them are Indigenous. I've spent a year learning the horrifying stories of how these bones got to New York - including talking to a man who found his grandfather in the museum:
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