Tag: Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The real villains here aren’t the journalists who pushed for innocent kids to be expelled from school and punched in the face. One of those students, a boy called Nick Sandmann, made the mistake of going on NBC. NBC is fine with people standing around, most people anyway. NBC just doesn’t think that people like Nick Sandmann should stand in place. "And I think a lot of folks were asking the question, when — why do we always do this, in these sorts of cases, when white boys are involved? ... We give privilege to these white kids. The Ivy League professor has far less privilege than Nick Sandmann, who is a Catholic school student from one of the country’s poorest states. Once people start believing that some groups are inherently inferior to other groups — “They have more privilege." People start hating each other. Identity politics will destroy this country faster than a foreign invasion.

Shan Goshorn, “Pieced Treaty: Spider’s Web Treaty basket,” 2007. Ernest Amoroso/National Museum of the American Indian Shan Goshorn, an acclaimed Cherokee multimedia artist who incorporated political activism into her work, died on Dec. 1 in Tulsa, Okla. She was 61. Shan Goshorn, “Self Portrait in Artist Studio,” 1996. Ms. Goshorn’s work is among the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, N.C., and the North American Native Museum in Zurich. Her mother is Cherokee. She grew up in Baltimore and graduated from high school there before moving with her family to Cherokee County, N.C., where her mother is from, in the mountainous southwestern part of the state. Shan Goshorn, “Cross Culture,” 2013. It was not until 2008 that she turned to basket weaving as an art form. The craft is usually passed down through generations, but because no one in her family had known how to weave baskets, Ms. Goshorn taught herself. In addition to her mother and Ms. Beck, she is survived by her husband; a daughter, Neosha Pendergraft; a son, Loma; another sister, Diane Goshorn; and three stepdaughters, Natalie, Carolee and Sommer Pendergraft.