In Conversation: Catlin’s ‘Vanishing Indians’ and the politics of Indian agency, National Portrait Gallery, May 9 2013, 7pm.
Next Thursday (9th May) Jacqueline Fear-Segal
and Rebecca Tillett will be representing AMS and the Native Studies Research
Network at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Along with David Stirrup (University of Kent), they will be discussing the historical and political
context of George Catlin’s ‘Indian Gallery’ to coincide with the NPG's George Catlin: American Indian Portraits season of events.
Free and open to the
public, the event will explore Catlin’s portraits alongside the responses of
19th century Native American intellectuals. Jacqueline , Rebecca and David will also address the way in which the Smithsonian has used Catlin's imagery to establish the
narrative of the vanishing Indian, as well as the way in which contemporary Native Americans
such as Pequot preacher William Apess or Ojibwe interpreter Maungwudaus have attempted to subtly challenge and subvert these romantic and racist stereotypes in popular
culture.
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