by Rich Wandschneider | May 28, 2016 | African American DNA, Alvin Josephy, Indian DNA, John W. Powell, Native American languages, Smithsonian
There’s an interesting piece in today’s NYT about genetic testing African Americans. The researchers covered in the article calculate that “the ancestors of the average African-American today were 82.1 percent African, 16.7 percent European and 1.2 percent Native...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 3, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, George Gustav Heye, Heye Center, Heye Foundation, Museum of the American Indian, NMAI, Senator Daniel Inouye, Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. The recent passing of Senator Daniel Inouye caused me to remember Alvin Josephy’s respect for him and a story that I tell now in hopes that someone still alive can corroborate or deny it. The Museum of the...
