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2018-02-23T15:03:48.000Z
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Video Title:
Finding Common Ground 3 | Paul Chaat Smith
Description:
Finding Common Ground focuses on the complex history of African Americans and Native Americans and how their intertwined stories have become an essential part of American identity. In this segment, Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, speaks on the commonalities of and differences between Native American and African American social and political struggles. Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) is an author, essayist, and associate curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. His work focuses on the contemporary landscape of American Indian politics and culture. His exhibitions include James Luna’s "Emendatio" (2005 Venice Biennale), "Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian," and "Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort." Paul is also the co-curator with Cécile R. Ganteaume of "Americans," on view at the museum in Washington, D.C. until 2022. Smith is the author of "Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong" and, with Robert Warrior, "Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee." In 2005 Art Papers named Smith one of the 25 most respected contemporary art curators working today. In 2017 he was selected by the Association of International Art Critics—USA to deliver the Eleventh Distinguished Critic Lecture. Finding Common Ground is a collaboration between the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It was webcast and recorded in the Rasumson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on February 15, 2018.
Video Duration:
24 min 25 sec
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