European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine a photo director at tie museum of Tho american Indi an Roland Force in front of a painting entitled Bird head shield by Kevin red Star. Future of new York s american museum in doubt by Jules Loh associated press if you believe the indians got shortchanged Hen they let Manhattan Island go Tor a handful olb Eads Lake a look ,1 you dare at what happening to their heritage  entails a visit to me museum of the am cuban Indian the trip promises adventure. Cop being murdered on a rooftop it is. As they suspected but could not a sure a false alarm. Well get Mayba three Calls like that a Day,11 Olicer Abrams says. Probably one dealer hoping Well catch his Competition when to respond and they know we ii  dealer drug dealer. You Are standing on one of the busiest and most dangerous and violent drug centers in town and you stand out. You Don t fit i would leave if i were you " there s the rub or one of whom the sort of people who like of visit museums do not fit in this neighbourhood and do not come even though scholars regard the Indian museum s million item collodion As one of the most magnificent in the world another rub is that even if people weren t afraid to saturday june 21, 1986 come. Tiey would shall see Only one or two percent of the collection because that is All that will fit in a building which according to Roland Force the museum s director was Loo Small when it was Buill in 19s6 like the original inhabitants of Manhollan who wore and worshipped some of those artefacts the rest of the collection has been removed from the Island Send to various Remote storage places out of sight.1  says Force. We have to relocate relocate or go out of business " and there s the third rub again Tike the native americans who used those treasured relics their ultimate place of residence will a decided by a court of Law. Noi necessarily to the satisfaction of Ali ii s frustrating to put it mildly " Force  there islands or Perol Wilh his Check Book n his hand and hero stands Iho new York attorney general saying where you do something is More important than what you do. Ant in is nol True that or. Perot is trying to raid Newyork we invited his  h. Ross Perot the Texas billionaire last year offered to put up $70 million to build in Dallas a world class museum of 400.000 Square eel which Force and his trustees figure is the minimum needed right now they have about 77,000 scattered around and Only 15.000 of exhibition space where 90.000 Are needed raid or not Perot s gesture finally caught the attention of City and state officials until then it was More or less assumed thai the Indian museum would be Abie to work something out Wilh the american museum of natural history which enjoys a Well frequented Safe and Leafy Campus off Central Park and covets the Indian museum collection suddenly jealous of the Long ignored Indian museum. New yorkers began writing tellers to the editor calling radio talk shows and generally cursing Porol and All i hings texan few had Ever visited the museum in 1984 Only 35.440 customers showed up Many from Oul of town thai same year an eight week exhibit of 300 of the museum s artefacts Alan attractive Midtown gallery Drew 115.000. I Don l believe this collection should go to the highest bidder says Tom Nicholson the director of the natural history museum. George Heye would be spinning in his grave Force says George Gustav Heye. Heir loan Oil Fortune Loundon the Indian museum one Day m 1b96 he gave a Navajo woman $5 Tor he Buckskin shirt off her Back and became Hoover on collecting in 20 years he had accumulated about 400,000 Indian artefacts from throughout the hemisphere an International co Lechon and soc ight a place to put them he built a heroic building with ionic columns Fine stonework and a Copper weathered Green roof on a Hill overlooking the mighty Hudson. Ii was in a grand neighbourhood too Back then in 1916 things change now Graffiti decorate the ionic columns and gunfire occasionally echoes off some of new York s loveliest Tum of the Century residential architecture Tho 34lh precinct has More violent crime than any other in Manhattan says officer fallings and it is is the worst Section of the 34th precinct " i be had one car stolen and two  says museum director Force. By the  he adds Dir fully where did you Park yours in any event Back when Heye Buill his museum people were pressuring him even then to give his collection instead to the established natural history museum. Heye would nol hear of it. So far As i am concerned he whole in a terse response to the head of the anthropology department at Columbia University. The discussion is ended " but in Selling up his Trust Heye also whole these words in a statement of 1he museum s purpose. To promote the Public welfare by actively advancing learning and providing Means for carrying on the work within the state of new York also by. Doing such things As May be necessary to fully carry out the object of this  question what if in May be necessary to move from new York to fully carry out the object of the Grant that is where the matter rests. A state judge said he would decide in due course whether to hear arguments. That was last december on the outcome could depend the future of George he be s great Clec Tjun. The stars and stripes Page 13