cedarwolf posted at 11:22AM Sat, 17 October 2015 - #4234078

Well said, Shante! Around here (NE Oklahoma) we see our Elders dying alone and all their memories and cultural possessions vanishing with them. As these Elders leave us, they leave a cultural gap that would fill much of the information sought by modelers.

I agree about scanning, however. Our local University (just retired from there) has a single, large bed scanner but it is so old that they use it more for storage than actual scanning. What needs to be done is for someone, somewhere, with far deeper pockets than we have, to pull together donations and collections, do the full scale scans with an established overlay grid, and make that data available to the public.

We can dream, can't we?

To scan you need to find a plethora of original works from original artifacts (properly photographed or rephotographed first) archival photos (retouched and enhanced using all the modern technology) , dated and documented illustrations originally done of historical artifacts probably no longer available etc. Unfortunately there is as you say, no organization who can bend the ears of current government pigs with their own agenda, to fund endeavors such as this to try and preserve the destroyed and undervalued heritage of the Native Americans. They didn't care about them then when they took over their lands, lives and dreams and they don't give a hootie pad now prefering to subsidize with tax payer dollars, to build bridges that serve noone, roads that go nowhere, Increase funds that preserve sweet water fishies at the cost of valuable and severely needed better managed irrigation water ways, build bigger and better government buildings when there are thousands of government owned properties in disuse all over the country, build more Barbie Doll Museums and God knows how many more projects that serve a minority of their constituants' demands that have no value whatsoever. Sad shit that in my opinion!