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I can't say enough how awesome it was to have found this book! I am in a reading challenge where you try and read one book from each of the dewey decimal categories and I used a random number generator to pick out a book at my local library. They didn't have the number that I'd rolled, BUT this was the book next to that gap, so I picked it up.
I've been to the Smithsonian, to several of their museums, actually... And I am astounded that I had such a "eh, whatever" feeling about them when I was younger. My father told me how important they were, but I really didn't get it. I do now! Boy do I! I now have plans to go back and go into EVERY building in the Institution!
Lieutenand Governer Kemble Warren, a member of the Topographical Engineers, conducted the surveys on the Great Plains, all while collecting. Present at the Blue Water Creek massacre of the Sioux by IS cavalrymen in what would become Nebraska in 1855, a saddened warren picked up 100 of the Smithsonian's first Indian artifacts. p80
This just makes you want to visit so you can remember the lives lost. I really enjoyed knowing the real history behind some of these collections.
And you know, back in the day, you could work for the Smithsonian with little real education, be in your early 20's and be in charge or close to it. I mean it's ridiculous of how much things have changed. Now you only need a degree to get jobs like that, back then you needed experience and a love for the work. Well, okay, among other things.
Indians truly representative of the tribes were considered unpresentable, and although the plan to use live Indians was endorsed by President Grant, Congress refused to appropriate funds for moving or housing even "the cleanest and finest looking" such people. p122
And so it begins. Ignorance in the face of knowledge.
Did you know there's a post office in the museum? Or at least there used to be, I'm not sure if it's still there. They went out, found an original post office and general store and moved the whole dern thing into the museum, then fixed it up, filled it with period stuff and got the postal service to make it a working office, complete with cancellation stamp and everything. They had a picture in the book. Like so many of the other things in there that I don't remember, it just made me want to go back again.
I was also impressed to see how they had continued their original ideals into the modern time. I was an adult when they built the Native American museum in Washington and I visited it when it first opened. Reading this book and listening to the ideals, then comparing them to what I saw when I was in the building (which hadn't been thought of at the time the book was made, only the one in NYC was included) really made me see that the Smithsonian is continuing in a way that is true to itself. Well done.
I've been to the Smithsonian, to several of their museums, actually... And I am astounded that I had such a "eh, whatever" feeling about them when I was younger. My father told me how important they were, but I really didn't get it. I do now! Boy do I! I now have plans to go back and go into EVERY building in the Institution!
Lieutenand Governer Kemble Warren, a member of the Topographical Engineers, conducted the surveys on the Great Plains, all while collecting. Present at the Blue Water Creek massacre of the Sioux by IS cavalrymen in what would become Nebraska in 1855, a saddened warren picked up 100 of the Smithsonian's first Indian artifacts. p80
This just makes you want to visit so you can remember the lives lost. I really enjoyed knowing the real history behind some of these collections.
And you know, back in the day, you could work for the Smithsonian with little real education, be in your early 20's and be in charge or close to it. I mean it's ridiculous of how much things have changed. Now you only need a degree to get jobs like that, back then you needed experience and a love for the work. Well, okay, among other things.
Indians truly representative of the tribes were considered unpresentable, and although the plan to use live Indians was endorsed by President Grant, Congress refused to appropriate funds for moving or housing even "the cleanest and finest looking" such people. p122
And so it begins. Ignorance in the face of knowledge.
Did you know there's a post office in the museum? Or at least there used to be, I'm not sure if it's still there. They went out, found an original post office and general store and moved the whole dern thing into the museum, then fixed it up, filled it with period stuff and got the postal service to make it a working office, complete with cancellation stamp and everything. They had a picture in the book. Like so many of the other things in there that I don't remember, it just made me want to go back again.
I was also impressed to see how they had continued their original ideals into the modern time. I was an adult when they built the Native American museum in Washington and I visited it when it first opened. Reading this book and listening to the ideals, then comparing them to what I saw when I was in the building (which hadn't been thought of at the time the book was made, only the one in NYC was included) really made me see that the Smithsonian is continuing in a way that is true to itself. Well done.
