Joe Biden greets elected officials and Space Force leadership, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

It’s taking a long time to clean up the bad influences of Joe Biden’s administration on America.

Those impacts exteded even down to the level of researchers’ ability to review, even see, artifacts from the native culture in America, and now one expert has written a commentary calling for the repudiation of Biden’s agenda.

It is Elizabeth Weiss, professor emeritus of anthropology at San Jose State University and author of “On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors,” who is calling for the reversal of Biden’s “Final Rule” regarding the handling of museum exhibits, research and more.

IF that would happen, “Then archaeologists and curators could return to their proper role: preserve the past, studying it honestly and educating the public instead of surrendering science to political compliance.”

She explained the results of Biden’s interference are so serious that now, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “even a flute can now be treated as human remains.”

That would be based only the claim from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians, a claim made without any independent scientific test or archaeological evidence that the flute, long considered to be of animal bone, really is from a HUMAN bone.

The flute was found near Malibu, California, and came to the museum through Nelson Rockefeller’s collection in 1979.

According to the commentary in the New York Post, “So now a museum object once available for study will vanish from public view — not because archaeology proved it failed to qualify for exhibition, but because the Biden administration’s rewrite of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, transformed a 1990 repatriation law into a system that elevates tribal consultation over science.”

Weiss explained, “The original law was a compromise: Archaeologists and museum curators who celebrated NAGPRA envisioned reuniting human remains, burial goods and sacred objects clearly linked through historic and scientific evidence to modern tribes, while preserving the ability of museums and universities to study and display what could not be linked to modern tribes.”

Biden changed that, “erasing our ability to reconstruct the past, shuttering museum exhibits and leading to discrimination against female archaeologists as research centers incorporate tribal customs.”

Biden went to extremes by insisting on a “no research without tribal consent” requirement on Native American remains and covered cultural items.

Even “opening a box to see what is inside can be treated as ‘research,'” she pointed out.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.