This week we had speakers Nancy Mithlo and Tom Jones discuss their experiences and professional work with museums. Nancy’s background is in anthropology and she has studied and worked all over the country. She spoke about Native American art and
March 5 class
Update 2/10/09
I will attempt to document briefly the progress of the class. The first speakers that we had were Larry Nesper, Doug Kiel and Skott Vigil. Larry spoke to us about treaty history in Wisconsin. We discussed the nuances of several
U. Club Luncheon
Today was an interesting class in that we all met at the University Club. We were joined by Ryan Comfort (Recruitment & Retention Specialist [Student Diversity Programs]) and his assistant Aaron Bird-Bear, Tracy Peterson (American Indian Student Academic Services), and
Reflection of Progress
First things first: I began this class knowing close to nothing on American Indian affairs–contemporary or otherwise–outside a handful of movies and some grossly inadequate public school history classes. In reality, the classes served no other purpose than to gloss over a