[inaudible conversations] hi, everyone. I would like to welcome you. Thank you so much for coming. We are excited to have jon ronson here with us tonight, journalistst, documentary filmmaker and bestselling author. He cowrote the screenplay. And his writing has appeared in many places including the guardian, the New York Times, gq, and others. We are excited to have him here. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming. [applause] high. Thank you for coming. The story of the worst thing i ever did. It is not in the book. My wife like a special occasion. I. My work chooses the very worst things for special occasions. A surprise we can do is part even though she knows i dont like being touched. As i was being massaged trying to make polite conversation i cant think of anything but my childhood. Most people were sexually abused. I said, well i remember that. Waiting ages. Tonight he glances. Suddenly the soup came. I began began to eat it ravenously. John, see the john, see the girl
And a native rights advocate who is trying to eliminate thousands of native american mascots. We begin with the director of business owning institutions National Museum of the American Indian. This is just over two hours. [applause] thank you very much for hosting us tonight. It is good to be back in the valley. I was expecting different weather than we have got but we all know rain is always a blessing in the desert. It is very good to be here at the museum. It is one of our important Partners National late and nationally and works with armies and to help us sharpen ideas and share information and objects quite often. It is always good to be here. For those of you who have not seen it, i hope you will check out the exhibition on native americans in sports. I think you will be surprised. One of the things that many people are surprised by our the range of things that native americans have achieved excellence in. This is one of those areas. We all know about jim thorpe. There were many
The canadian side . I come from a province 20 seconds. We would the it would be raised in minnesota and processed in iowa. So i think people want to know where their food comes from. Theres got to be a way to deal with that reality and not we won three case. Were going to win a fourth. Wed rather negotiate than retaliate would be our view. What do you think . It will be healthy and will dont be healthy between the United States and canada. Well see how the court case plays out not with standing those here. I want to thank all of our panelists for being here. Its been an enlightning conversation here at the table. Its been good to have you in the audience with us tonight. Continue to at least continue the dialogue and i suppose as long as everybodys talking maybe not the two guards at the top but as long as the rest of us keep talking about the issue theres always a way to work our way through it. So thank yall for being here. Thank you again here in the audience. And well see you next
You from time to time so i can see which slide we are on. I am at the National Museum of the American Indian. One of the things that interest us greatly is the persistence of stereotypes. Our visitors dont come as blank slates, they come with a preconceived set of ideas, not uninformed but misinformed. As you can see, just a couple of years ago at the vatican. This is a man there at the vatican celebrating as she understands native american culture. This is one of those examples where we can hardly alter at fault. She does not know any better because this is what she has been taught. This entire notion of Cultural Appropriation and taking from native people of their authority to define who they are emerged at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. This is part of the imagery that laid the groundwork for what would later become this business of using indians as mascots. Really, abusing our history in more significant ways. This is the end of the trail them in, a famous o
And so, that is lie. The other lie is that one star deets himself was an indian. He was convicted of fraud for pretending to be an indian because he was trying to dodge the draft. Yet, the team maintains on its website that is the origin of the name. Similarly, this team has an origin myth. They say it was a fellow named henry who was a baseball player for the team. They say they named their team and order to honor him. If you really begin to dig into that history, what we find is henry was treated incredibly badly by the fans. Second, he was not that good. He was not the kind of guy you would name your team for. He was not bad, but he was not that good. Third, he was not a very nice guy. All of this sort of suggests that they made that up. This is part of what goes on when dealing with indians and in the public discourse. Things get made up and indians become very malleable and they are formed in order to fill whatever particular role the institution or entity or state or country need