An artist from Oklahoma is in the spotlight at the Museum of Native American History with a new mural that commemorates the Trail of Tears. As an artist, I m kind of a records keeper and a storyteller. I m telling these people s stories through my art, artist Johnnie Diacon said.Diacon s three-panel mural was recently unveiled and tells the story of the Trail of Tears. I usually don t do those because of the subject matter, such as a sensitive subject matter, he said.Diacon did the mural as a tribute. I think it s important that Native artists represent ourselves because our stories and our images have been put out there by people other than us for so many years. Representation is very important, he said.The mural is located on the south wall of the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville, Arkansas. It s on the Trail of Tears route. As a native artist, I have this responsibility to do these and do them in an honest and accurate way, Diacon said. To me, it goes a l
How Mohawk âSkywalkersâ Helped Build New York City s Tallest Buildings
Native American riveting gangs worked on the high steel for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.
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Native American riveting gangs worked on the high steel for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.
Native Americans aren’t often associated with New York City and its dense, vertical landscape. With so many Indian nations pushed to America’s frontier in the 19
th century, they usually appear in popular culture as denizens of the rural West, occupying wide open spaces replete with tipis, buffalo and pow wows. Yet the Mohawk Nation has deep roots in metropolitan New York City where, beginning in the early 20
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The Arkansas Native Seed Program established by the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission has partnered with a dozen agencies and nonprofits, including Audubon Arkansas, to seek out and work with farmers willing to grow wildflowers and grasses to produce large quantities of locally sourced native seed for use in wildlife restoration projects throughout the state.
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On today’s show, property owners who fail to submit information to Fayetteville’s Landlord s Representative Registry by Friday will be subject to fines. Plus, nearly 40 percent of U.S. Veterans have declined being vaccinated for COVID-19. We report on why and how Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks key medical providers are responding. Also, we attend a ground breaking for an indigenous medicine garden at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville and much more.
Dr. Paul Conrad earns tenure and promotion
The Department of History is proud to announce that Dr. Paul Conrad has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of History effective at the start of the 2021-22 academic year.
An expert in Native American history and the history of the North American West, Dr. Conrad is author of the forthcoming monograph,
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival scheduled for release by the University of Pennsylvania Press on May 28, 2021. Employing a broad chronological and geographical scope, Dr. Conrad s work sheds light on topics including genocide and Indigenous survival, the intersection of Native and African diasporas, and the rise of deportation and incarceration as key strategies of state control. The book reveals how centuries of enslavement, warfare, and forced migrations failed to bring a final solution to the supposed problem of Apache independence and mobility as Spain, Mexico, and the U