Covering your ass. It was written by his closest and favorite lieutenants including the academic and later columbia scholar gilbert hiett. He was married to Helen Mcinnes which is interesting because she was writing antinovels that made the nazi atrocities about which was also propaganda in the form of fiction. I believe they are recognizable for the style. It is fairly academic and dry. Suddenly, you will come across a chapter that begins, looks like a goat, in terms of one politician, and another politician looked like a horse. This would be dahl trying to liven up an official report. I used it it heavily would be an overstatement. There are portions that are more reliable than others. The dahl section i know what he was doing every day. I knew where he was. I could compare it, track it with his entry in the history and substantiate many of his claims. I was willing to use him there. Other claims made by stevenson i dont mention in the book. I dont think they can be substantiated. Ce
Because after all, we have been taught that the pilgrims that squanto taught them to warn them of had a good crop that first year. In exchange 21 they wanted to have a big cities to celebrate and to give thanks and play a little folk all. And that is how all of this began. Our modern understanding of thanksgiving is very much a 20th century invention. It was not a holiday that was marked throughout the first 300 years of europeans being permanently settled in the new world. But now it is entered American Mythology as true and squanto as a central part of the myth. What is not so much a part of our understanding of this. Was king philips war which followed about 40 years after the arrival of the pilgrims was an absolutely devastating war between the english and the dutch and it was ferocious probably the greatest percentage of the population of all of these peoples was killed, more than in any other american conflict. So it was absolutely defining of their relationship in the historical
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
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