The Plimoth Patuxet Museum Controversy
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Which living history museum in Massachusetts are Native Americans calling for a boycott of?

  • Salem Witch Museum
  • Old Sturbridge Village
  • Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums (correct)

    • What is the focus of the 'Historic Patuxet Homesite' at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums?

  • Traditional European life
  • Mayflower landing
  • Colonial reenactments
  • Traditional Indigenous life (correct)

    • Why are members of the state's Wampanoag community calling for a boycott of the museum?

  • The museum is too far away
  • The museum does not equally tell the story of the European and Indigenous peoples (correct)
  • The museum is too expensive
  • The museum is too crowded

    • What did the Plimoth Patuxet Museums change their name from in 2019?

    <p>Plymouth Plantation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the museum declare when it changed its name to Plimoth Patuxet?

    <p>The museum will equally tell the story of the European and Indigenous peoples</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Wampanoag Consulting Alliance?

    <p>A Native group that includes former museum staffers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has the museum done to improve the outdoor Wampanoag exhibit?

    <p>Expanded it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has led to the departure of many long-standing Native staffers at the museum?

    <p>Low pay and poor working conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the state of the 'Historic Patuxet Homesite' at the museum according to the Wampanoag Consulting Alliance?

    <p>It is in need of major repairs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which living history museum in Massachusetts are Native Americans calling for a boycott of?

    <p>Plimoth Patuxet Museums</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of the 'Historic Patuxet Homesite' at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums?

    <p>Traditional Indigenous life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why are members of the state's Wampanoag community calling for a boycott of the museum?

    <p>The museum does not equally tell the story of the European and Indigenous peoples</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the Plimoth Patuxet Museums change their name from in 2019?

    <p>Plymouth Plantation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the museum declare when it changed its name to Plimoth Patuxet?

    <p>The museum will equally tell the story of the European and Indigenous peoples</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Wampanoag Consulting Alliance?

    <p>A Native group that includes former museum staffers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has the museum done to improve the outdoor Wampanoag exhibit?

    <p>Expanded it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has led to the departure of many long-standing Native staffers at the museum?

    <p>Low pay and poor working conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the state of the 'Historic Patuxet Homesite' at the museum according to the Wampanoag Consulting Alliance?

    <p>It is in need of major repairs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which community is calling for a boycott of Plimoth Patuxet Museums?

    <p>The Wampanoag community</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is Plimoth Patuxet Museums?

    <p>A museum featuring Colonial reenactors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of the 'Historic Patuxet Homesite' at the museum?

    <p>Traditional Indigenous life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main concern of the Wampanoag community and their supporters regarding the museum?

    <p>The museum's failure to create a 'bi-cultural museum'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the museum change its name to in 2020?

    <p>Plimoth Patuxet Museum</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the museum declare the new name reflected?

    <p>The importance of Indigenous perspective</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has the museum done to expand the Wampanoag exhibit?

    <p>Raised more than $2 million towards a new Indigenous programs building</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did former museum staffers say about the museum's outdoor exhibit?

    <p>It was in need of repairs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What led to the departure of many long-standing Native staffers who built the program into a must-see attraction?

    <p>Low pay and poor working conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which institution hosted the event 'Appetite for the Past' in New York City?

    <p>New York University</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What methods do researchers use to recreate ancient recipes?

    <p>A combination of molecular evidence, archaeological analysis, and culinary instinct</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can residue and soot on ancient ceramic cooking pots provide clues to?

    <p>The ingredients and cooking methods used in ancient recipes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What techniques were used to identify plant ingredients in the residue on an ancient ceramic cooking pot found in a Chinese cemetery?

    <p>Lipid extraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the ancient recipe that was recreated at the event 'Appetite for the Past'?

    <p>Millet and pork stew</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the team add to the stew to make it more palatable?

    <p>Pork and eggplant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the researchers use as a guide to determine what ancient people weren't eating?

    <p>The limits of palatability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Raymond Childs' role in the event 'Appetite for the Past'?

    <p>He experimented with different ways of preparing millet to recreate the ancient recipe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How was the millet-pork stew received by the tasters at the event?

    <p>It was well-received</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which organization hosted the 'Appetite for the Past' event?

    <p>The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What methods do researchers use to recreate ancient recipes?

    <p>Molecular evidence, archaeological analysis, and culinary instinct</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can residue and soot on ancient ceramic cooking pots provide clues to?

    <p>Ingredients and cooking methods used in ancient recipes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What techniques were used to identify plant ingredients in the residue on an ancient ceramic cooking pot found in a Chinese cemetery?

    <p>Lipid extraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was added to the millet stew to make it more palatable?

    <p>Pork and eggplant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Raymond Childs do in order to recreate the ancient millet recipe?

    <p>Experimented with different ways of preparing millet</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the researchers determine about how the stew was cooked?

    <p>It was probably simmered with the pot tipped on its side</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the team use as a guide to determine what ancient people weren't eating?

    <p>The limits of palatability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the reception of the millet-pork stew served at the 'Appetite for the Past' event?

    <p>It was well-received by the tasters</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the event 'Appetite for the Past'?

    <p>To gather scholars and chefs to recreate ancient recipes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What methods do researchers use to recreate ancient recipes?

    <p>Molecular evidence, archaeological analysis, and culinary instinct</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can residue and soot on ancient ceramic cooking pots provide clues to?

    <p>Ingredients and cooking methods used in ancient recipes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What techniques were used to identify the plant ingredients in the residue on an ancient ceramic cooking pot found in a Chinese cemetery?

    <p>Lipid extraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Raymond Childs, a chef at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, do to recreate the ancient recipe?

    <p>Experimented with different ways of preparing millet</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the researchers determine about how the stew was likely cooked?

    <p>It was probably simmered with the pot tipped on its side</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the team add to the stew to make it more palatable?

    <p>Pork and eggplant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have researchers used as a guide to determine what ancient people weren't eating?

    <p>The limits of palatability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How was the resulting millet-pork stew received by tasters at the event?

    <p>It was well-received</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Native Americans call for boycott of Plymouth living history museum

    • Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of Plimoth Patuxet Museums, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    • The museum features Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower.
    • Members of the state's Wampanoag community and their supporters say the museum has not lived up to its promise of creating a "bi-cultural museum" that equally tells the story of the European and Indigenous peoples that lived there.
    • The "Historic Patuxet Homesite," the portion of the mostly outdoor museum focused on traditional Indigenous life, is inadequately small, in need of repairs and staffed by workers who aren't from local tribes.
    • Concerns come just two years after the museum changed its name from Plimoth Plantation to Plimoth Patuxet as part of a yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing.
    • The museum declared the "new, more balanced" moniker reflected the importance of the Indigenous perspective to the museum's educational mission.
    • Museum spokesperson Rob Kluin said the museum has expanded the outdoor Wampanoag exhibit, raised more than $2 million towards a new Indigenous programs building and has "several initiatives in place" to recruit and retain staff from Native communities.
    • Carol Pollard, whose late brother Anthony "Nanepashemet" Pollard played a key role in the development of the museum's Indigenous programming as a leading Wampanoag historian, was among those dismayed at the state of the site.
    • Museum officials for years ignored suggestions for modernizing and expanding the outdoor exhibit, say former museum staffers.
    • Low pay and poor working conditions led to the departure of many long-standing Native staffers who built the program into a must-see attraction by showcasing authentic Indigenous farming, cooking, canoe building and other cultural practices.
    • The Wampanoag Consulting Alliance, a Native group that includes former museum staffers, said in a statement that the museum has systematically dismantled the outdoor exhibit.
    • Many steps taken to provide equal representation to Wampanoag programming have been removed, and the physical exhibit is in deplorable condition, leading to the virtually complete alienation of the Wampanoag communities.

    Archaeologists and Chefs Join Forces to Recreate Ancient Recipes

    • Scholars and chefs recently gathered in New York City to recreate ancient recipes.
    • The event, “Appetite for the Past,” was hosted by New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
    • Researchers use a combination of molecular evidence, archaeological analysis, and culinary instinct to recreate ancient recipes.
    • Often, the task of understanding what people in the past ate and how they prepared and consumed it is an exercise in scientific inference and creativity.
    • Residue and soot on ancient ceramic cooking pots can provide clues to the ingredients and cooking methods used in ancient recipes.
    • Anthropological archaeologist Yitzchak Jaffe and anthropologist Karine Taché analyzed residue on an ancient ceramic cooking pot found in a Chinese cemetery.
    • Lipid extraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry were used to identify plant ingredients, including millet, in the residue.
    • Raymond Childs, a chef at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, experimented with different ways of preparing millet to recreate the ancient recipe.
    • The researchers determined that the pot had been used to cook a stew, probably simmered with the pot tipped on its side.
    • The team added pork and eggplant to the stew to make it more palatable, as they did not have much else to go on beside millet.
    • Researchers have used the limits of palatability as a guide to determine what ancient people weren't eating.
    • The resulting millet-pork stew was served at the event and was well-received by the tasters.

    Archaeologists and Chefs Join Forces to Recreate Ancient Recipes

    • Scholars and chefs recently gathered in New York City to recreate ancient recipes.
    • The event, “Appetite for the Past,” was hosted by New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
    • Researchers use a combination of molecular evidence, archaeological analysis, and culinary instinct to recreate ancient recipes.
    • Often, the task of understanding what people in the past ate and how they prepared and consumed it is an exercise in scientific inference and creativity.
    • Residue and soot on ancient ceramic cooking pots can provide clues to the ingredients and cooking methods used in ancient recipes.
    • Anthropological archaeologist Yitzchak Jaffe and anthropologist Karine Taché analyzed residue on an ancient ceramic cooking pot found in a Chinese cemetery.
    • Lipid extraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry were used to identify plant ingredients, including millet, in the residue.
    • Raymond Childs, a chef at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, experimented with different ways of preparing millet to recreate the ancient recipe.
    • The researchers determined that the pot had been used to cook a stew, probably simmered with the pot tipped on its side.
    • The team added pork and eggplant to the stew to make it more palatable, as they did not have much else to go on beside millet.
    • Researchers have used the limits of palatability as a guide to determine what ancient people weren't eating.
    • The resulting millet-pork stew was served at the event and was well-received by the tasters.

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    How much do you know about the controversy surrounding the Plimoth Patuxet Museums? Test your knowledge on the ongoing boycott by Native Americans in Massachusetts, who are calling for equal representation of Indigenous and European peoples in the living history museum's exhibits. Learn about the concerns raised by the Wampanoag community and their supporters, including the inadequately small "Historic Patuxet Homesite" and the departure of long-standing Native staffers due to low pay and poor working conditions.

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