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The exhibition is called americans and it is built on a paradox, the riddle. The paradox is this in 2018 the United States is a country of 283 million people. And indians are perhaps 1 of that population. Most americans live in urban or suburban areas and parts of the country where they never actually see American Indians. And yet American Daily life, indian images, advertising, mascots, surround people every single day. So this show is about exploring the strange contradiction of how prevalent American Indians are in American Life, really from the earliest memories of americans throughout their life, and yet somehow it was never really noticed much, never seems important. The Curatorial Team decided to call this phenomenon indians everywhere. Its normalizing whats actually a very weird phenomenon. We looked and we couldnt find any other country in which one ethnic group has been used for so many different purposes for such an extraordinarily long time into the present. We want to enla