Memorial next week. So, were glad that you are here, we are excited to be talking about the memorial, and lets get right to it, with me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. He is a cheyenne peace chief, and has been a career lot enforcement official. He is a working artist, and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. So please great harvey pratt, thank you. [applause] thank you. So, harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a design for the memorial. Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no i really had no hope that they would even come close, or to submit a design. He just kept after the inside, do it for the tribe, submit something. I thought about it and i said, let me dream on it. I said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done early in the morning, in that dream period. So that is what i did. I went home, i dreamed about it and i got my big chief out, made some sketches, and he just came to me all of a sudden that morning. In o
What your job is. Thank you, my job is assistant director for a culture at the Smithsonian National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, historians, curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, the books, a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography, we also have over 500,000 photographs in the National Museums of american Archive Center. So i have been working very hard, i in the year ive been at the museum. Ive a 30 year career at the smithsonian, but i only joined this museum last year. And these photographs of the archives. The. It has become more and more familiar with it over time, so when i was asked to think about the opportunity to consider what photographs we have online for the public to see and for students to study online, it was a great opportunity, because i was able to review and get really deep into all of the collections of photo
Were joined by the smithsonians michel delaney. Tell us what your title is and what your job is . Thank you. My job is assistant director for culture at the smithsonian Smithsonians National team of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians the curators at the museum who are in charge of producing exhibitions, the books a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography and we have also over 500,000 photographs in the National Museum of the American Indian archives center. So i have been working very hard in the years that ive been spent at this museum. I am a 30 year career at the smithsonian but i just joined the American Indian museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me is an archivist. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote the this article a virtual tour of history. Thanks richard. We have a great magazine. American