Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:54:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: United Tribe Of Shawnee Indians <oylerjdo-AT-tyrell.net>
Subject: Re: discussion channels


Thank you Mr. Johnson for the truth.
old jim

On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Robert Johnson wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, Theodore E Downing wrote:
> 
> > I also think that it is unwise to open up the anthap discussion to 
> > students, other than grad students in anthropology. 
> 
> 	It would be unwise for you because some students may question
> 	anthropology's collusion in the cultural appropriation of Native
> 	American knowledge (ethnographers) and sacred geography (archaeology).
> 	They might also question the move from colonialism into big 
> 	business by applied anthropology as it mines the worlds 
> 	indigenous peoples for their ethnomedicine while assuaging its
> 	conscience by giving money to the masters of what Aguirre Beltran
> 	termed "Regions of Refuge" ie. those pockets of colonialism and
> 	exploitation anthropology compromises itself in seeking its access
> 	to blindly continue the process of theft began and continued by
> 	Western big business.
>        
>         Or students may question the eco-tourism industry that 
> 	anthropologists and ecologists construct with World Bank monies,
> 	National Science Foundation grants, and need-to-know corporate
> 	sponsoring which place indigenous peoples in eco-tourist zoos.
> 
> 	Or students may question those anthropologists and archaeologists
> 	who do research on indigenous peoples while those very indigenous 
> 	peoples are subjected to systematic murder by their governments
> 	that anthropology dares not offend fearing termination of the
> 	"scientific" adventurism by faculties and their student prodigies. 
> 
> 	Or students may question the true intentions of anthropologists
> 	and archaeologists who, after getting a few shots in them at
> 	SfAA or AAA conferences, tell their real feelings about the "ignorant"
> 	and "anachronistic" peoples they base their employment, publications,
> 	and prestige upon.
> 
> > 
> >   	Theo. E. Downing
> > 	Research Professor of Social Development	
> > 	Arizona Research Laboratories: Interdisciplinary Division 
> > 	University of Arizona
> > 	1237 N. Mountain
> > 	Tucson, Arizona 85721
> > 		Phone: 520-621-2025
> > 		FAX:   520-326-3338
> 
> 	Yes, Dr. Downing. I see the threat to the Status Quo students who
> 	aren't dependent on faculty committees may pose.
> 	
> 	But, you can always censor them and throw them off list groups
> 	like Hugh Jarvis does at anthro-l, or rig your computer like 
> 	Anita Cohen-Williams does at Arizona State, or merely threaten to
> 	go to a moderated list like those at environment-l at Cornell.
> 	
> 	All in ignorance of course to their constitutional obligations
> 	in operating open lists across multiple jurisdictions on 
> 	U.S. Government supported Internet, with guidelined granting agencies,
> 	and institutional legal shills who tell them what they want to hear
> 	and charge them tax-payer supported dollars.
> 
> 	
> 						Robert Johnson
> 
> 							University of
> 							Colorado/Boulder
> 
> 
> 


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