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You from time to time so i can see which slide we are on. I am at the National Museum of the American Indian. One of the things that interest us greatly is the persistence of stereotypes. Our visitors dont come as blank slates, they come with a preconceived set of ideas, not uninformed but misinformed. As you can see, just a couple of years ago at the vatican. This is a man there at the vatican celebrating as she understands native american culture. This is one of those examples where we can har...

And so, that is lie. The other lie is that one star deets himself was an indian. He was convicted of fraud for pretending to be an indian because he was trying to dodge the draft. Yet, the team maintains on its website that is the origin of the name. Similarly, this team has an origin myth. They say it was a fellow named henry who was a baseball player for the team. They say they named their team and order to honor him. If you really begin to dig into that history, what we find is henry was trea...

Sure people understand basic propositions. Even bart simpson gets it. Now i would like to get to this idea of American Mythology and the imaginary indian. We are deeply in the american dna. Every major american myth, major american origin story has to account for the indians in sunlight. Here we see columbus arriving in the new world looking remarkably fresh. But hiding in the righthand corner are the indians who were there when columbus arrived. We want to get into this business of the Columbia...