Smith (associate curator, National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian Institute) mixes wide-ranging social, political, and cultural commentary with recollections of his own life, includi
"Kindred Spirits" looks at the influence of indigenous art from the American south west on modern and contemporary art. It juxtaposes funerary vessels, paintings, pottery, weavings and baskets from 14
For a brief but brilliant season beginning in the late 1960s, American Indians seized national attention in a series of radical acts of resistance. Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of the drama
This book was first published in 2008 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and at the George Gustav Heye Center in New Yor
From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the
