On June 21, St. Paul Public Schools board clerk Chauntytyll Allen suggested on Facebook that dog parks could use White Christian cemeteries instead, adding, “Leave indigenous land sacred and piss on the white corpses.”
The post came after Minneapolis officials voted on June 18 to close a 6.6-acre site by year’s end due to its cultural significance to the Dakota people as part of the Mni Owe Sni complex, though no Native American graves have been confirmed on the site.
Critics online called the remark racist and anti-Christian, with some questioning her role in education; neither Allen nor the district has responded publicly.
Alpha News reports:
As Minneapolis officials prepare to shut down a popular off-leash dog park to protect what they describe as “sacred” Dakota land, an elected Twin Cities school board member has proposed a new site for dogs to do their business.
Chauntyll Allen, a St. Paul school board member and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, suggested in a Facebook post that “White Christian cemeteries” should be converted into dog parks so dogs could “piss on the white corpses.”
Allen’s comments were made during an increasingly contentious battle over the future of the Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park, which city officials voted to close by the end of the year.
Progressives are also using laws designed to protect Native American graves to suppress scientific research and seize priceless items, including non-Indian items. “A 1990 law meant to protect Native American skeletons and sacred items has spiraled out of control, say anthropologists. Tribes are appropriating and burying non-indigenous items, including a Chinese vase, X-rays, and photographs. Now, the ransacking threatens medical science,” notes Michael Shellenberger.
Below is a screenshot showing Chauntyll Allen’s suggestion to “piss on the white corpses”, from Facebook:
Museum displays are being removed or closed, not just dog parks. Two years ago, “the world-renowned American Museum of Natural History in New York City closed two major halls of Native American objects covering roughly 10,000 square feet.” The museum’s president said the halls were “vestiges of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values” of “Indigenous peoples.”
The National Review describes how “decolonization ideology” — including “deference to Native American cultural norms and a leftward shift in the intellectual currents of anthropology” — is “hindering scientific research into America’s past.” “Elizabeth Weiss, professor emeritus of anthropology at San Jose State University, argues that the field has been plagued by overbroad interpretations of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA.) Designed in part to deter grave-robbing, the act required the repatriation of human remains and sacred objects connected to federally recognized tribes, granting some leeway to tribal practices. Many repatriated items are reburied, which essentially destroys the item.” Many repatriated items are obviously not sacred to any tribe, and were merely found in proximity to graves. Some repatriated items are not Native American at all, and had no connection to the tribe to which they were given.
Federal and state officials have promoted “Indigenous knowledge” that includes pagan superstition and “discredited pseudoscience.” The Biden administration ordered federal scientific and regulatory agencies to use it, as a sop to progressive Native American activists. The Biden administration hosted “indigenous knowledge” seminars that warned scientists against “disrespecting” spirits.
Similarly, under Biden, the National Science Foundation financed a $30 million effort to combine primitive superstition with science, a “federally funded effort to braid” indigenous knowledge into science.
The push to use “indigenous knowledge” is based partly on false assumptions, such as the stereotype that Indian tribes are “stewards of the environment” who share unique insight on how to preserve it. As a pro-science web site explains, that “isn’t really the case, as Native Americans engaged in several practices, among them overhunting of bison and overburning of the prairie and woodlands (the latter also was done to facilitate hunting).”
Federal health agencies have wasted millions of dollars on “indigenous knowledge.”
In December 2022, the Biden administration released guidance designed to promote the use of indigenous knowledge and beliefs in federal agencies’ decisions, but also to give tribes more control over the public release of their indigenous knowledge. After the administration illegally withheld records about its policies on “indigenous knowledge,” it was sued in court. The lawsuit triggered the release of records that reveal a desire by some insiders to restrict the free flow of information.
