Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian & Associate Curator Paul Chaat Smith

I’m Jesse Jensen, an undergraduate student from the University of Iowa and associate producer for the Creative Process. During this interview Paul questions the education,or lack thereof, we are receiving in America around past and current Native American history. When reflecting on my own education I find that the miniscule amount of time and effort that was spent around these topics is insulting to Native Americans and also harmful to the youth who will grow up to be the future with a clouded and misleading education about American History. In school i was taught what Paul describes as a “brief chapter” where Native Americans were introduced to us in what textbooks describe as the “beginning of america”, but from that point forward in the book it’s as if they didn’t exist in our history. It’s not that their history stopped in the 1700’s,  <a href="https://medium.com/the-creative-process-collective/smithsonian-national-museum-of-the-american-indian-associate-curator-paul-chaat-smith-103de622c9b">Click Here</a>