| Summary: | This article discusses the author's view on the responsibility to protect traditional cultural places. The author reports that many Native American communities object to archaeological excavations and the wanton destruction of their traditional cultural places, which attempted to alleviate one symptom of the larger illness that was plaguing the U.S., an illness that silenced the Indigenous histories that contradicted the national story. She said national narrative distorted the Indigenous role by describing Native American peoples as helpless characters facing extinction during U.S. nation-building, when in reality, they were active and assertive participants. Native Americans have felt unwelcome in national museums that replicated the misleading history.
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