My friend Maggie Rice saw the show yesterday and shared something with me that she was reminded of: Nine of ten native people perished in the first century of contact between the hemispheres. One in ten survived. They didn’t fear change; they embraced it. Their past lives on in our present. As descendants of the one in ten who survived, we in the 21st century share an inheritance of grief, loss, hope and immense riches. The achievements of our ancestors make us accountable for how we move in the world today. Their lessons instruct us and make us responsible for remembering everything especially those things we never knew (By Paul Chaat Smith from American Indian Quarterly issue about missed opportunities at NMAI)
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