The substance of things unseen. Cities, past and future. In Oxford, perhaps we can use Lewis Carroll and look in the looking glass that is New York City to try and see our true selves, or perhaps pass through to another world. Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that once flowered for Dutch sailors' eyes, a fresh green breast of the new world."
Native Pasts
Native Pasts
From the period before European colonization to the present, this exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians. Explore the legacies of both dispossession and resistance, and the ways that depictions of Native Americans have been constructed in textbooks and popular culture.
First Peoples
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View Connections09Native Ecologies
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Native Ecologies
New York - Before the City
Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.Indian Wars
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View Connections20"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
View Connections20Legacies of Dispossession
View Connections20Resistance & Activism
View Connections20Picturing Indians
View Connections14Health & Disease
View Connections14Playing Indian
View Connections20Myth & Memory
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