Английская Википедия:Center of the American Indian
Шаблон:Infobox museum The Center of the American Indian (CAI) was an intertribal, Native American-led museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was housed in the second floor of the Kirkpatrick Center.[1]
The Center of the American Indian produced a quarterly journal, The Storyteller.[2] The CAI held workshops, language classes, and symposia, such as "We Always Had Plenty: Native Americans and the Bison" held in 1989.
CAI helped launch the Red Earth Festival in 1987. In 1992, the Center of the American Indian merged into Red Earth Inc.,[3] marking the end of its Native American leadership.
Personnel and supporters
Mary Jo Watson (Seminole) served as director of the museum from 1984 to 1988.[4] Baseball legend Allie Reynolds (Muscogee, 1917–1994) served as board chairman. Artists Benjamin Harjo Jr. (Absentee Shawnee/Seminole, 1945–2023) and Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa) volunteered at the museum and served on the board.[4] Collector Arthur Silberman advised the museum.[5]
Volunteers formed the Friends of the Center. Gallerist and dealer Imogene Mugg helped organize exhibition receptions.[1]
Selection exhibitions and publications
In 1990, the museum created a permanent exhibition Moving History: Native American Dance.[6] Artists Sherman Chaddlesone (Kiowa, 1947–2014) and Allie Chaddlesone (Kutenai) exhibited at CAI.[7]
Changing exhibitions, included:
- Kachin-Tihus: Those Who Sit with the People (1991) with catalog[8]
- Moving History: Evolution of the Powwow (1991) with catalog by Dennis Zotigh (Kiowa)[9]
- Songs of Indian Territory: Native American Music Traditions (1989) with catalog and cassette tape by Willie Smyth
- Mothers and Descendants (1987), group exhibition of women artists, including Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee, 1957–2018), and their children, guest-curated by Mary Lou Davis (Caddo/Cherokee)[1]
- Children of Early America (1987) with catalog[10] by Daniel C. Swan[11]
- Big War/Little War: Oklahoma Indians in the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1985), with catalog[12]
- Making Medicine: Ledger Drawing Art from Fort Marion (1984) with catalog,[5] celebrating the ledger art of St. David Pendleton Oakerhater (Southern Cheyenne, c. 1847–1931).
- Full Blooded (1984), solo exhibition of work by Edgar Heap of Birds (Southern Cheyenne)[13]
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