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...applied for a second grant. Now that they’ve got it, Merrill-Oldham says, they can start searching for people to fill the new positions—and the senior conservator job will be a crucial one. “We need that leadership before we can go further, because you want that kind of expertise on the staff before you put the hard plans into place,” she said...
There’s a thin line, they say, between fixing what’s broken and erasing crucial bits of history...
While in Saturday’s blowout making every extra point was not crucial to securing a Harvard victory, the knowledge that the Crimson has a kicker who can be counted upon to make that seventh point or boot that 30-yard field goal adds a level of confidence for future contests. For a team used to going for it on every fourth down rather than risk yet another botched field-goal attempt, being able to rely on Schindel reinforces an already powerful Harvard offense...
...major display areas are divided into three themes. "Our Universes" is about different forms of tribal knowledge, cosmologies and creation myths. "Our Peoples" deals with events that Native Americans see as crucial to their histories, like the establishment of the U.S.-Mexican border that abruptly divided Southwest desert tribes. "Our Lives" offers scenes and artwork from contemporary life, in which running shoes have replaced moccasins, in a world where some Indians live on reservations, some live in rainforests and quite a few live in Chicago. In each of the three sections, there are smaller display areas. Each one is devoted...
...Southern Cheyenne. "Native people don't see their own world in ethnographic terms." They also aren't interested in presenting their heritage as so many delectable glass-case curiosities or in having their history understood chiefly through the lens of their centuries of struggle with European settlers, however crucial that event may be. It's a history, after all, that begins some 10,000 years before the white man arrived and extends into the age of hip-hop and the Internet. "There was a tremendous 'before,'" says West, meaning before 1492. "There will be a tremendous 'after...