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Pennsylvania Battle Re-enactors Up in Arms Over Fighting Ban

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Kamaji:

--- Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on February 07, 2023, 04:45:28 pm --- ////00000////

So, the French and Indian War of 1763 is being re-marketed as the French and Indian Group Hug of 1763?

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Basically.  Or, more likely, it'll be re-branded as another instance of white supremacy destroying the peaceful lives of superior non-white natives.

Fishrrman:
Not to worry.

Before too many more years pass, these "re-enactors" may get the opportunity to "go to battle" in their native land... but this time, for real.

Timber Rattler:
UPDATE:

PHMC is in hot water with state legislators now.  Turns out that it was a couple of PHMC staff flunkies making those kinds of arbitrary decisions behind closed doors without bringing their proposals to the Commission for votes.

Local lawmakers join ‘battle’ to bring back Bushy Run reenactments

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/local-lawmakers-join-battle-to-bring-back-bushy-run-reenactments/?fbclid=IwAR0YoIvy4s_O247feZ-wO2oqwJU58XyGWojiPvxJW3weIPdxvDntovMO9cQ


--- Quote ---Local lawmakers are pressing the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for more transparency and a possible reversal of its decision to end Bushy Run’s annual battle reenactment.

As a result of her and other lawmakers’ actions, state Sen. Kim Ward, R-Hempfield, is hopeful that PHMC’s “no force-on-force” policy will at least be put to a vote by its own commission before it could take effect.

Ward — whose district includes the Penn Township battlefield where the British and Native Americans fought during Pontiac’s War in 1763 — said her goal is to see Bushy Run’s 260th reenactment take place in August and “move forward from there.”

“When decisions affect a community … (they need) to be transparent, and there needs to be input,” Ward said.
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EXCERPT.

Timber Rattler:
PHMC's side of the story, which makes no sense.

Pa. agency explains why it enacted new 'no force-on-force rule' for Bushy Run, other sites

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/pa-agency-explains-why-it-enacted-no-force-on-force-rule-for-bushy-run-other-sites/


--- Quote ---The end to battle reenactments at Bushy Run Battlefield has left many members of the community saddened and frustrated.

But in Harrisburg, officials with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission consider the new “no force-on-force” policy a positive for state history.

“There are more impactful and safer educational methods through which we can teach the public about the complex mix of ideas, events, social structures, etc. that led to violent conflict,” PHMC external affairs director Howard Pollman wrote via email.

Pollman provided further details on why PHMC decided to enact the policy that halts the annual Penn Township reenactment that commemorates the August 1763 battle between the British and Native Americans during Pontiac’s War.

As one of PHMC’s partner properties, Bushy Run relies on PHMC to oversee its strategic and interpretive direction. The site’s day-to-day operations are managed by the volunteer-based Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society.

(snip)

Because the decision fell in the field of professional interpretation, it was made by PHMC staff and was not voted on by PHMC’s commission that includes elected officials and other state leaders.

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During a public meeting on Jan. 29, Bushy Run leaders acknowledged PHMC’s consideration to delay the policy, but expressed they felt they had to cancel the 260th reenactment.

This is because, also in mid-January, Bushy Run leaders said PHMC staff told them that, effective immediately, they would no longer be allowed to have non-Native reenactors portray Native Americans at the site, according to Rob Malley, who sits on the heritage society’s board.

In past Bushy Run reenactments, most reenactors were not Native American. There are no federally recognized tribes in Pennsylvania, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Representatives from federally recognized tribes attended the mid-January meeting with Bushy Run and PHMC leaders, according to Malley. During the meeting, the representatives told Bushy Run leaders that “they and others would not be available for our reenactment,” Malley said.

“That’s a reenactment without Native Americans that we were allowed to have,” he said. “That’s not much of a reenactment.”

Subsequently, Bushy Run leaders came to the conclusion that there was “no solution in holding a battle reenactment … with PHMC approval,” Malley told the public.

However, Pollman said that PHMC informed Bushy Run leaders that it intended to provide the funding to include Native American interpreters in the planning and implementation of Bushy Run’s 260th anniversary event.

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EXCERPT.

Smokin Joe:
They need to go to a Trapper's Rendezvous...in Germany.

Or are they banned from 'going native' for the event, too?

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