One hour 15 minutes. One note of introduction. Since we are here at a museum, which is a slightly different venue than a library or university, i want to put in your mind couple of objects that you can see when you go to the gallerys today. Downstairs, in the gallery, on the west side of the museum, f you go down stairs and turn right, there is a room with a taxidermy bison in that room. If you look to the left of the bison, there are a couple cases. One of them is a case of artifacts related to the battle of the little bighorn. Inside that case, there isa a firearm, a springfield, acquired lacada fighter named little moon. You can look at that object and contemplate how it changed hands, the travels that it took prior to that and the ways that might help us think differently about history in then the west. Coincidentally, in the west, there is a small macabre basket. The washington Olympic Peninsula made of seaweed and one work of art. Maybe after this talk, you will be able to look a
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