There have been up to six claims since 1976 for the Guanche mummy to be brought to the Canary Islands.
Hello National Archaeological Museum of Madrid. I think you have something that would suit the history of YOUR territory better. I understand that in museums there are endless objects "extracted" from the cultural riches of other places. And, by the way, little is said about the fact that we have normalized historical looting in the name of the exhibition.
But what you have...on this occasion, it is very important for us to be able to preserve: Our history. Especially because we fight day after day to preserve the little history that they have left us in the memory of our ancestors. There is nothing worse for a territory than the extirpation of its roots. With this I want to express that we make great efforts to democratize our history among the Canarians and to know in greater depth the reality of our ancestors, famous for their resistance and courage. We have been a people with an erasure of memory that has taken its toll... we boast of paradise and wave the flag on May 30, but we do not know the true entrails of who the Guanches were. And you, with this small gesture, partly contribute to depriving us of being able to have our history at home, you only continue to open the wound. Because it is not just a simple Guanche mummy. It is our dignity and the respect of our idiosyncrasy. And we want it with us.
You have a Guanche mummy among your showcases, and you say that it cannot be preserved in the Canary Islands. I understand the technical aspects, but I am sure that a solution can be explored when there is a will, there is always a solution. Even give us some necessary resource in the name of the brotherhood that you boast so much between communities and territories in Spain. Because understand...without going to the most technical aspects...how is a Guanche not going to be able to be preserved in the Canary Islands? Where do you think that Guanche would want to be? I can assure you that in Madrid for sure not, that you can't see the sea there.
Sending us a replica and not the original is not only an insult but a lack of coherence.
It may be that for you it is just another object to boast about "conquest"; you already know the letters that the conquerors sent at the time;
«Go all over the world and you will hardly find anywhere people more beautiful or people more gallant than those of these islands, both men and women, in addition to being of good understanding if there were someone to cultivate them».
But for us... it is the history that we want our grandchildren to remember.
And that when they listen.... "here lived the Guanches" they know who they were.
