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Exhibition dates: 20th February – 29th May  2016 Not only was he one of the greatest ethnographic photographers of all time (as well as being an ethnographer recording more than 10,000 songs on a primitive wax cylinder, and writing down vocabularies...

The beginning of some stories rely on the end of others. In 1877, Yellowstone National Park was five years old. It was scarcely organized or maintained, but already it drew a trickle of visitors. This was a West that was not yet “won,” however, and the...

Up to June 30, 1834, Andrew Jackson had aggressively enforced the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which sent the Five Civilized Tribes of the South (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) west of the Mississippi.  He claimed that it was for their...

Find this, Americans, and get it into your bones — The Dying Grass and other Dreams of William T. Vollmann History begins for us with murder and enslavement, not with discovery — William Carlos Williams FIRST A WARNING, then some spoilers: even before...

1492-1899 - Native American Timeline from the Indian Perspective from Legends of America 1492 When Christopher Columbus first came in contact with native people, he wrote: "They all go around as naked as their mothers bore them; & also the women...