IndiVisible - African-Native American Lives in the Americas
(Description of photo from website as follows) Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears Comanche clothing. Their niece (center) is Wife-per, also known as Frances E. Wright. Her father was a Buffalo Soldier (an African American cavalryman) who deserted and married into the Comanches. Henry (center left) and Lorenzano (center right) are the sons of Frances, who married an African American man.
The exhibition IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas is a collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES).
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Unfortunately this was a traveling exhibit in 2009, I bet they hit Boston and I would have been able to see it. But now it is currently it is on display only at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. Here is the information for that:
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas
July 4, 2011–February 2, 2012
NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC
As you can see it only runs until February, so if you have the chance to go, don’t wait!
For those like me who can’t afford a trip to DC, you can still see many of the pictures here: IndiVisible Online Exhibit.
It’s easiest to click through by the arrows just below the title and nav bar, but you can navigate around through drop menus of the nav bar where it says “Introduction”, “Policy”, “Community”, etc too.
I wouldn’t have found this if it wasn’t for deluxviven’s post about the Indians of Bermuda, where this exhibit is mentioned, and I went looking for it hoping it was still traveling around the country. (If you missed it, you really need to read that post too! And if you aren’t following her, well, you should be!)
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I’ll be in DC around Christmas time, if anyone wants to meet up and go to this with me.
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