Warning...rant ahead.

There are going to be more photos soon, but I have a minor rant. While we were in Washington, Dad A and I cruised by the Museum of Native American History and Culture. It's a pretty building, but I have some huge issues with the exhibits inside.

Maybe I'm just a racist, but I noticed that the exhibits didn't seem to actually have much to do with the nastier side of NA cultures. Granted, we weren't exactly the white knights of the world, but there were quite a few atrocities commited by NA peoples against...other NA peoples. Why isn't that mentioned?

There were quite a few mentions of how spiritual the cultures were, but there wasn't any mention of the lovely religious practices of the Aztecs and the Mayans. I mean, I'm sure that it's easier and more "right" to blame white people, since no native culture ever did anything that wasn't in the best interest of the land, and "people."

Lots of exhibits on thee horrible things the white man, such as the Spaniards, did in order to subjugate the poor little natives, including stripping them of gold, and making slaves out of them. Yeah, we did it and it was wrong, but we certainly weren't the first to run roughshod over other cultures.

But hey, who cares about presenting a balanced view? Let's just blame every single white person for anything bad that's ever happened in the past million years. It's easier. And God knows this society is all about what's easy.