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2022-11-23T16:10:21.000Z
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Video Title:
Panel Discussion | Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Description:
Following a screening of the film "Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting," Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee and Native rights advocate Suzan Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee), Director of the National Museum of the American Indian Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo/Hopi/Tewa/Navajo), and National Museum of the American Indian Founding Director W. Richard West Jr. (Southern Cheyenne) took the stage to discuss the film and their ongoing advocacy of Native American rights, the struggle to eliminate racist sports mascots, and the formation of the National Museum of the American Indian. Co-director of the film, Ben West (Cheyenne) moderates the discussion. This discussion took place at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 19, 2022 as a part of the Native Cinema Showcase.
Video Duration:
28 min 43 sec
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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
