Watched Avatar 2 & couldn’t help shake the notion of “Museum Culture.”
I believe I heard about it in discussions by @akshayalladi or @samyak128
That the Na’vi are basically a mix of near extinct indigenous human cultures. At the whim of a tech superior race, simply biding time.

The concept of “Museum Culture” deserves its own article honestly.
Indigenous cultures are either best in museums or rapidly decaying on small reservations of tribes. Even these small tribal customs are crushed by political co-opting by Marxists (or missionaries in India).

Think of what’s happening to the “I” in BIPOC.
Their traditions are now at the whim of Western culture wars & lip services of land acknowledgement. Even the fantastical “land-back” movement has no commitment to cultural and spiritual revival, rather just an economic onus.

The reason being is that progressives are not comfortable with actual indigenous culture.
It is best either being co-opted or in a museum. As an aesthetic. A flimsy garment or mushy exotic food that poses no threat.
Human & cultural taxidermy essentially.