ARCHAEOLOGIST PATRICIA SUTHERLAND

PAY ATTENTION!
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"OTTAWA RESEARCHER'S 

FIRING DERAILS VIKING PROJECT

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This wrong action may change the 

paradigms in four million school kids 

next year.

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Dr. Pat Sutherland, Curator of Arctic archaeology at "The Canadian Museum of Civilization," was abruptly FIRED from her job by Canadian Prime Minister Harper's government.  Administrators in the government would rather bury real evidence by re-writing history to continue to promote the Mythical Primitive Wilderness Paradigm.

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The willful intent of the conservative government is to BURY evidence of the first Norse settlements in North America, in favour of a "conservative friendly" version of BRITISH Colonialism.   As a DIRECT result of decisions made after Dr. Sutherland published her finds "the Canadian Museum of CIVILIZATION" will even be renamed "the Canadian Museum of HISTORY".

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Simply put, REAL evidence of the past is being given a back seat to a manufactured version of history being pushed by the Harper government. True Norse Catholic history is being buried. The administrators have confiscated ALL of her finds and ALL accompanying research data.

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The administrator's actions are WRONG! An administrator is suppressing public information developed by a competent archaeologist using public funds. Worse yet that public knowledge is important to researchers in other countries.  Every year four million school kids in North America will be forming their lifelong paradigm of early American history. 
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Today they will learn the myth that NO European came to North America before Columbus.   The 17th century English in America promoted that myth to cover up their slaughter of the Norse Catholics, who called themselves Lenape.  Where ever the English landed on the Atlantic shores, the Lenape extended a friendly hand. 
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The Columbus myth has been an effective ploy for nearly three centuries to enable the English to say “There was nobody here but pagan savagers.”  Substitute “Norse Catholics” into that sentence and the paradigm changes.  Sutherland's evidence implies that there were Norse Catholics in America.  Without Dr. Sutherland's evidence the presence of Norse Catholics, as reported by the oldest American history, will be more difficult to discern.
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Schryer and fellow administrators are still believing the Mythical Primitive Wilderness Paradigm. They believe that paradigm enables them to erase knowledge that has been accumulated by professional use of public funds.  Administrator should make decisions based on evidence and not myths. Evidence found by competent archaeologists using public funds belongs to the public, including other researchers in other countries.
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If you pay taxes in Canada, FIRE Schryer!

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Salt Spring News (scroll down)

tems: Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop's open mind, and administrator Rod McCullagh's, stand in stark contrast to Canada's current pack of ministers and administrators.
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Earlier this year, when the museum let Sutherland go, it effectively cut her off from her research files. Neither Sutherland nor the museum will say why she was terminated, though she’s hinted that political forces were at play. Sutherland’s supporters—including James Tuck, a professor emeritus of archaeology at Newfoundland’s Memorial University—speculated that her revised Canadian narrative might not jibe with the museum’s new mandate. Indeed, the Conservative government has announced plans to change the name of the museum to the Canadian Museum of History, with a new focus on showcasing prominent historical figures. - Jane Armstrong reporting

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Ottawa researcher’s firing derails Viking project (Difficult to find this article.)
Don Butler Ottawa Citizen Ontrio Canada November 21, 2012
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OTTAWA — This should be the best of times for Pat Sutherland. November’s issue of 
National Geographic magazine and a documentary airing Thursday night on CBC’s The Nature of Things both highlight research the Ottawa archeologist has been doing in the Canadian Arctic for the past dozen years that could fundamentally alter our understanding of our early history.
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If Sutherland is right, Norse seafarers — popularly known as Vikings — built an outpost on Baffin Island, now called Nanook, centuries before Columbus blundered on to North America. Moreover, there’s evidence they traded with the Dorset, the Arctic’s ancient, now-vanished inhabitants, for as many as 400 years.
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”That’s incredible,” says Andrew Gregg, who wrote, directed and produced The Norse: An Arctic Mystery, the CBC documentary that recounts Sutherland’s findings. “That rewrites all the history books.”
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But Sutherland’s pleasure at the recognition her discoveries are receiving has been sharply tempered by a harsh reality. Last April, even as the documentary about her work was being filmed, the 63-year-old, then curator of Arctic archeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, was abruptly dismissed from her job.
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At the same time, museum officials also stripped her husband, Robert McGhee — himself a legendary Arctic archeologist described as “one of the most eminent scholars that Canada has produced” — of the emeritus status it had granted him after his retirement from the Gatineau museum in 2008.
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No one involved will say why the museum severed its relationships with Sutherland and McGhee. When asked, Sutherland responds hesitantly, choosing her words with care. “I can’t really talk about my dismissal,” she says.
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Gregg suggests Sutherland’s dismissal may be linked to the museum’s impending transformation into the Canadian Museum of History. “It’s a complete shift in ideology,” he says. “The narrative that’s coming out through this government and our institutions has no room for a new story about the Norse.”
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However, [Chantal Schryer, the museum’s vice-president of public affairs,] flatly denies that. The departure of Sutherland and McGhee “has absolutely nothing to do with the change of name and change of mandate,” she declares.
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Sutherland — the only female archeologist the museum has ever employed — won’t comment on that. But, she points out, “people have expressed concern that the announced changes are going to lead to a neglect of archeology and ethnology, and my work comes under that heading.”
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Schryer says the museum “remains interested in archeology, including in the Arctic.” However, it’s clear the museum is committing fewer resources to that area than it has in the past. ...
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Some of the artifacts Sutherland had assembled were on loan from other institutions, and within days of her dismissal, they were sent back to museums in Newfoundland and Greenland. Others belong to the government of Nunavut. Negotiations are under way between the museum and Nunavut to determine their fate.
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Sutherland intended to co-publish her findings with 15 international collaborators, but her dismissal dashed those plans. She also wanted to work with the community of Kimmirut to get national historic site designation for the Nanook site, something that would have generated tourism and jobs. “There’s a lot of disappointment and dismay that this work isn’t going ahead,” she says. ...

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