Indians Everywhere: Paul Chaat Smith on "Americans"

How is it that Indians are present everywhere-in place names, popular culture, advertising, sports team names, weapons systems-yet barely present in history and largely absent from the great national debates of our time? At his August 31 talk, author and curator Paul Chaat Smith examined this question through twin lenses: Americans, the new show he curated at the National Museum of the American Indian, and the controversy surrounding the identity of Jimmie Durham, an artist whose Cherokee heritage has been questioned.

[@scottselliers1672]

I just returned home from visiting this exhibition in DC. Paul Chaat SMith's exhibit definitely caught my attention and I am now seeing #NDNsEverywhere

[@bonnypal3641]

Stop those Indians from coming to USA or else you will end up losing your job 🙄

[@scottselliers1672]

@@bonnypal3641 you realize this was an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian, right? What are you eye-rolling at?

[@bonnypal3641]

@@scottselliers1672 so what are you trying to say ???

[@bonnypal3641]

@@scottselliers1672 you seem very okay with the fact that Indians are coming and taking up your resources ??

[@scottselliers1672]

@@bonnypal3641 in half an hour I'm going to delete my year-old comment that unfortunately provided a stage for your idiocy; I won't be party to your xenophobia - especially in a comment section for something as worthwhile as Paul Chaat Smith's work. I sincerely hope you are some form of trolling racist bot and not a flesh and blood human.

[@malcomshaw5962]

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