by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 19, 2017 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, Charles and Valerie Diker, Maria and Julian Martinez, MET, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter Rindisbacher
A recent piece in the New York Times described a large collection of “modern” and American Indian art being donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The headline is telling: “Native American Treasures Head to the Met, This Time as American Art.”...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Hudson’s Bay Company, missionary movement, noble savage, Peter Rindisbacher, plains Indians, rousseau
I keep trying to write about “assimilation,” because I know that Alvin considered it—the ways in which the white power structure has “zigzagged,” as he put it, with policies and actions aimed at “making Indians stop being Indians and turn themselves into...
