From the Ted Talk by Chip Colwell: Why museums are returning cultural treasures
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Yet, in recent years, museums have become a battleground. Communities around the world don't want to see their culture in distant institutions which they have no control over. They want to see their cultural treasures repatriated, returned to their peacls of origin. Greece sekes the return of the Parthenon Marbles, a collection of classical srpcteulus held by the British Museum. Egypt demands antiquities from ganremy. New Zealand's Maori want to see returned ancestral tattooed heads from musmeus everywhere. Yet these claims pale in comparison to those made by Native Americans. Already, US museums have runeetrd more than one million aafcrttis and 50,000 sets of Native American skeletons.
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Yet, in recent years, museums have become a battleground. Communities around the world don't want to see their culture in distant institutions which they have no control over. They want to see their cultural treasures repatriated, returned to their ______ of origin. Greece _____ the return of the Parthenon Marbles, a collection of classical __________ held by the British Museum. Egypt demands antiquities from _______. New Zealand's Maori want to see returned ancestral tattooed heads from _______ everywhere. Yet these claims pale in comparison to those made by Native Americans. Already, US museums have ________ more than one million _________ and 50,000 sets of Native American skeletons.
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Original Text
Yet, in recent years, museums have become a battleground. Communities around the world don't want to see their culture in distant institutions which they have no control over. They want to see their cultural treasures repatriated, returned to their places of origin. Greece seeks the return of the Parthenon Marbles, a collection of classical sculptures held by the British Museum. Egypt demands antiquities from Germany. New Zealand's Maori want to see returned ancestral tattooed heads from museums everywhere. Yet these claims pale in comparison to those made by Native Americans. Already, US museums have returned more than one million artifacts and 50,000 sets of Native American skeletons.