Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Take a Break: Learn some history about the American Indian


After months of struggling through mountains of reading, lectures etc. in preparation for a talk I'm giving on Indigenous Peoples day, our history is complex, violent, heroic, confusing and at the root of all of it, extremely human.

 

Many do not know or care to learn much beyond the history they were taught in school. The Indians, who make up 1% of our population today, were 100% of the in 1491. What happened?

 

In my despair of understanding what wretches the humans are to one another and to our planet, I have found voices of reasons and sanity in the efforts of of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Check out some of the resources, as what you think happened and did happened are often very different.

 

Check out some of the following resources:

National Museum of the AmericanIndian 

 

Exhibits at the NMAI 

 

National Native Americans Veterans Memorial

 

Kevin Gover (Pawnee and Director of the NMAI) TED Talk


 

 

Gover notes there is no Native American history, no Irish American history, no African American history. It's all our history that we've inherited and we have to start from that point. We're messy. We're complicated. We're human.

 

Not interested in today’s activities, try the Take a Break Pinterest Board.

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