Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the New York Historical society. I am New York Historicals president and ceo. I am thrilled to see so many of you here in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium. An infamousogram, nazi rally, 1939, as part of our distinct speakers series. I would like to thank mr. Swartz for his generous for his generosity to bring so many speakers to this base. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank a number of trustees who joined us this evening. I would like to recognize our herr and thank pam for truly outstanding work on behalf of this institution. Ournt to depart from trustees to recognize pams husband scott. We had three programs this evening, and he has been to two of them. I would also like to recognize susan, andbin, slightly departing from our trustees, i want to recognize a great friend of this institution, the head of the carnegie foundation. He is known as president of brown, head of the public library, and all sorts of other things. He is
Act and the impact on southern tribes. Associate curator paul chaat smith leads us through the americans exhibit, which examines how indian imagery is prevalent in toys and mascots. Is built on ation paradox, the riddle. It is this, the paradox in 2018 the United States is a country of 283 million people. And American Indians are perhaps 1 of that population. Most americans live in urban areas, parts of the country where they never actually see American Indians. And yet in american life, indian images, advertising, mascots, surround people every single day. The 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 Territorial Team decided to call this phenomenon indians everywhere it is about normalizing whats actually a really weird phenomenon. We looked and we couldnt find any other count
Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and emancipation. I would like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, Arnold Bernard schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our programs possible. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david blight. I want to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at New York Historical. I want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are cochairs of our Frederick Douglass counsel. Welcome all members who have joined up today. [applause] recognize ao longstanding and very special friend of New York Historical , eric rudin who has joined us , this morning. Thank eric for all he and his family have done over a very long time at this institution. Thank you. This Mornings Program will last about an hour and a half and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received a note card and a pencil as you entered the auditorium this morning. If not,
Six were arrested after a rash of violence in Wewoka, and the silence from city officials caused concern. Police say reports of "roving gangs" were exaggerated.