Indigenous Erasure by the Haffenreffer Museum, Indy's Winter Break Revelations, and MMORPG Nostalgia
Volume 46 Issue 1 — February 10, 2023
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Featured Pieces
For Metro, contributing writer Keelin Gaughan B’25 and senior editor Sacha Sloan B’23.5 detail the Haffenreffer museum’s ongoing 30-year failure to return native remains and funerary objects that belong to the Narragansett nation.
“I asked him when he was going to do the right thing,” says John Brown, head of the Office of Historic Preservation of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, of a meeting with former Brown University administrator William Simmons. “He thought it was funny.” Read here.
In Science and Technology, section editor Angela Qian B’24 delves into the legally questionable fan revival of the much-loved massively multiplayer online children’s game Moshi Monsters, and discovers a dream land of digital capitalism. Read here.
Preoccupied with new visions of old settings, Indy Feats asked staff writer Abani Neferkara B’24 and senior editor Jane Wang B’24 to reflect on home and the pain of growing up. Read their companion pieces here and here.
Also in this week’s issue:
The Bulletin
Upcoming events and local organizing. Read here.
Ephemera
Animation for Zoetrope - by Sam Stewart B’24
World
Diamond of the Season: India’s arranged marriage with the English language — by Navya Sahay B’26
Week in Review
Week in Eating Poetry — by Eva Kappas B’26
Literary
Sunshine Ten Times Over— by Jesse Gallant B’24
X
Pal of Mine — by Charlie Medeiros B'25
Dear Indy
He’s Just Not That Indie You — by Annie Stein B’24
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