The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations says it doesn’t believe any managers meant to steal paintings, jewelry, sculptures or other works that vanished from a $14.4 million Indigenous art collection. It is not known what happened to scores of artworks used to decorate the department’s regional offices: “This went on for decades.”
More: Police were never called, and the department still cannot explain what happened to the paintings, jewelry, sculptures and other taxpayer-funded works…
Most of that stuff is sub-par garbage from flunky artists.
The artwork went missing the same way all the aboriginal women went missing.
Don’t give anyone ideas. An inquiry into Missing Indigenous Art (MIA) can be played for years and millions by the Indian grievance industry.
Why don’t they all go missing.
How does someone steal stuff without meaning to steal stuff.
It is simply considered as reparations!
Its Whitey’s fault.
Post partum depression stealing?
It’s the native way!
Those pieces aren’t stolen……they’re just borrowed…….
We used to call that an indian giver back in the 60s….seems the term hasn’t been used in quite a few decades.
I used to work for DND, and similar things happen there all the time: some marginally valuable piece of art or a historical do-dad gets put on the walls somewhere and it’s on a list and tracked. Eventually, someone takes it off the wall and it goes into a storage room, while the person who maintained the list retires or moves on. Years later some flunky is tasked with clearing out the storage room and told to ‘throw that crap out’. As he’s taking the art to dumpster, or has it piled up against a wall, someone says, “hey, can I have that?” It’s bad management and institutional incompetence –not criminal behaviour. As as far as wasting tax-payer dollars goes: how many people do you think cut work a few hours early yesterday? Blacklocks should start doing FOI requests on how many people work in government buildings, and then request stats on the day before a long weekend.
Imagine my disappointment when I misread your sub headline “Indigenous ways of vanishing”…thinking instead it read “Indigenous ways ARE vanishing”. My bad.
nope Joe, right the first time. indigenous ‘ways’ have vanished via:
insulated heated permanent accommodations. telephones connecting the permanent accommodations. refrigeration used within the permanent accommodations.
television programming when there’s nothing else to do within the permanent accommodations.
electricity in abundance as opposed to 10,000s years WITHOUT a single 1/100th of an amp ANYWHERE except a bolt of lightning?
– anything whatsoever – to do with a gasoline engine, be it an outboard motor, skidoo, pickup truck (stolen ones included)
passenger flight ie primarily pontoon single engine planes to and from remote settlements.
the list is almost endless. ALL of it taken from WHITE COLONIALISTS.
how convenient to ignore THAT stuff.
may l submit, as respectfully AND ironically as possible, the missing artworks are merely another form of cultural appropriation. it occurs to me in typing that there is a double meaning;
‘appropriating the *actual goods*, AND ‘borrowing on’ the white race’s long history of theft (as compared to the stereotype native practice of sharing always in some glorious high honour of self sacrifice for the ‘common good’)