Museum

The [Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian] makes no mention of the genocide, starvation, burning of Indian villages, rape, or forced death marches such as the 1838 Trail of Tears, which resulted in the death of most of the Cherokee population. Vague euphemisms gloss over the suffering of Native Americans on government reservations and in Indian boarding schools. A video on the third floor equates Indian ‘suffering,’ which is never specified, with a storm or natural disaster:

"The storm is powerful and unceasing. It creates and destroys. It offers life and death, hope and despair. It is never simply one thing. The storm is an opportunity. The storm teaches. We have learned much".

--Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco, "Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt", p. 12, 13