In the battle the little bighorn gallery, she shows us shields and drawings about 1876 battle. In newspaper articles, movies, television, and wild west shows. We are standing in the central gallery of the National Museum of American Indians exhibition titled americans. This explores the nature of the American Peoples relationship with American Indians. Its based on the premise that most American People think they have nothing to do with American Indians and that American Indians have nothing to do with them. We are arguing that the exact opposite is true. Americans and American Indians share a deeply in tangled history. This shaped United States of america, and had a profound and Lasting Impact on American National consciousness and popular culture. We are standing in the central gallery, which we call indians everywhere you this large gallery is covered floor to ceiling with images. This imagery is pervasive in americans lives. Most American People are not conscious that anywhere you
History. Next we tour the National Museum of the American Indian americans exhibit with curator in the battle the little bighorn gallery, she shows us headresses, shields and drawings about 1876 battle. In newspaper articles, movies, television, and wild west shows. We are standing in the central gallery of the National Museum of American Indians exhibition titled americans. This explores the nature of the American Peoples relationship with American Indians. Its based on the premise that most American People think that they have nothing to do with American Indians and that American Indians have nothing to do with them. We are arguing that the exact opposite is true. Americans and American Indians share a deeply in tangled history. This shaped United States of america, and had a profound and Lasting Impact on American National consciousness and thier popular culture. Were standing in the central gallery, which we call indians everywhere you this large gallery is covered floor to ceiling
Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th
12 30 p. M. Welcome. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. We will present this room and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us leadheaded thinkers turned into scholars and teachers. The process works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yale to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [applause] not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling throughdings, yawning brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on frid
We are standing in the central gallery of the National Museum of American Indians exhibition this exhibit explores the nature of the American Peoples relationship with American Indians. Its based on the premise that most American People think they have nothing to do with American Indians and that American Indians have nothing to do with them. We are arguing that the exact opposite is true. We argue americans and American Indians share a deeply entangled history, that this history shaped the United States of america, and had a profound and Lasting Impact on American National consciousness and popular culture. When standing in the central gallery, which we call indians everywhere. As you can see, this large gallery is covered floor to ceiling with images. These are imaages the American People have made of American Indians. This imagery is pervasive in american lives. Most American People are conscious that anywhere you look you will find imagery of American Indians. We are arguing that t