Dr. Crystal Lee stopped by New York City today to share Navajo history, culture, and family stories. Lee, a public health postdoc at UCLA, is also the founder of a nonprofit organization that offers mentoring to young Native students, and she regularly advocates for Native youth and young women at the United Nations. She prefers […]
Suppressing the natural
At the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, visitors learn about Native dance, art, history, and modern culture. It’s a two-floor archive and represents thousands of years of Native contributions to the Americas. A recurring theme across the exhibits is colonial religions suppressing Native ceremony. Everywhere their boats took them, European […]