- This topic has 6 voices and 6 replies.
-
Posts
-
Here is the link to a very important conference that took place at the Smithsonian on Nov 13th.: IndiVisible: African-Native America…
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2549722
The presentation is somewhat intellectual but the Q & A afterward is rather insightful. I think it may make for some lively discussion here on this board.
Bill
P.S.
Still looking for a Dunston connection from Warrenton, NC
Very interesting (3 hours long, though — get comfortable).
A Sharon Smith spoke from the audience at about 2 hours and 46 minutes into it, and said she’s Saponi, btw.
I had a little emotional reaction on hearing the name of the late Fred Nahwooksy honored, just before the panel discussion began. Apparently he had much to do with getting this project out of the file cabinets and into reality. His dad was Comanche and his mom Cherokee, and I knew all of them back in the early 1970s when Clydia Nahwooksy and I were colleagues, working on the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. I believe Fred was still a teenager, at that time. Old enough to drive, at least. They took me to a powwow in which the Nahwooksy kids competed in a fancy dance contest. The native American presence (or, visibility) in the DC area sure has come a long way since then.
I look forward to seeing the exhibit, which I guess just opened Friday. Hadn’t heard about it, until I saw it here.
Sure it’s a long video lol. Enjoyed every second lol. Something that was interesting is when somebody from the New England Algonquian tribes asked something about bringing all of the decendants together and teaching our people the traditional life and raising the kids in a native traditional way of life. I think thats very vital in lifting up a tribe, especially when we can all come together and become a single tribe again.
Thanks for sharing the footage. It was nice to hear the comment from a Saponi lady at the end of the conference (Q & A).
I did not attend the conference on Friday Nov. 13th but I did check out the exhibit the next day.
Great Stuff!
Hello,
Thank you for putting this here! Great Video. The late Mr. Nahoowsky and myself exhanged many emails before he passed in conjuction with the indivisible project. Sad to see him pass.
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Will also be giving workshops!
They are as follows:
BLENDED FAMILIES: TRACING AFRICAN NATIVE AMERICAN GENEALGY
Saturday, Jan 23
1pm room 4018-19, fourth Level
Angela Walton Raji (Choctaw) facilitates a public genealogy workshop presented in conjunction with the exhibition IndiVisible: African Native American Lives in the Americas.
TEACHER WORKSHOP: INDIVISIBLE:
AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN LIVES IN THE AMERICAS
Thursday, Feb. 18
4pm-6:30pm
Presented in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the IndiVisble worshop explores the complicated and historical experiences of African Americans and Natives Americans raised in the museums’s traveling exhibition, IndiVisible:African-Native American Lives in the Americas.
To Register, Visit the Education Department’s Teacher Programs webpage at http://www.AmericanIndian.si.edu/education.
Many blessings.
Shoshone
I just visited (yesterday) the small exhibit at the NMAI and purchased the book associated with this. Here’s the link for the webpage, and here’s one for the book. Haven’t read that much yet but suspect anyone with Afro-Native heritage may find it interesting, as will anyone, frankly, interested in Indian identities in the eastern states, though there’s much else (Cherokee freedmen, black Seminoles) etc. addressed.
Mr. Dunn,
Thanks for visiting the exhibit. It is a honor that the exhibit has found it’s way to the NMAI. It not only enlighten people on people of Southeastern/Native mixed ancestry but on Native/African American descendants in general from all ancestries from east to west. I am sure the exhibit will continue to grow in context and continue to display the rich heritage of Native/African peoples in the Americas in the future. This does make one very proud I must say. A history that has been forgotten now will be remembered. The ancestors have not let us down.
Many Blessings!
Shoshone
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
