Volume 55 / Number 3
2013
Spotlight On: Native American Voices
On The Cover: Miscommunication, Jason garcia (2012). combining time honored Pueblo imagery and techniques with pop culture themes, this clay box shows santa clara Pueblo members chatting on their cell phones while celebrating the feast of saint clare of assisi. (museum object #2013-14-1)

Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Caroline Kee
Planting New Seeds: The Lenape Garden at Penn
Tucked behind Penn’s Greenfield Intercultural Center (GIC) at 37th and Chestnut is a small, narrow lot. For many years, it […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Julian Siggers
Transforming Understanding of the Native American Experience: From the Director
In the last issue of Expedition, I introduced our new mission statement: The Penn Museum transforms understanding of the human […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
Native American Voices Today: From the Guest Editor
This special issue of Expedition is an extension of our new exhibition, Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now, and […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Patty Talahongva
Being Hopi: When does a child realize her ethnicity?
I never saw myself as separate or different as a child growing up in Denver, Colorado. Perhaps it was because […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Joseph R. Aguilar
Researching the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo people, along with their Navajo and Apache allies, orchestrated what is arguably the most […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: John E. Echohawk
A History of Government Policies
Domestic Dependent Nations In 1831, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an Indian nation was not a foreign nation but […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
In the Galleries – Winter 2013
Native American Voices: The People –Here and Now Leave preconceptions behind and discover a living tapestry of Nations with distinct […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Suzan Shown Harjo
Threatened and Damaged: Protecting Sacred Places
Eagles disappear into the sun surrounded by light from the face of Creation then scream their way home with burning […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: C. Maxx Stevens
Seeing One’s Creative Process
Artist and professor C. Maxx Stevens examines her method of visual storytelling. Because objects can “speak” in the same way […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Eric W. Schnittke
Looking Back – December 2013
Editor’s note: This photograph and the story behind it recall an era of violence when Native American voices were silenced. […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
Member News – December 2013: Introducing Your Membership Team
In the last issue of Expedition, we introduced a number of new membership benefits, including an enhanced version of the […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: John E. Echohawk
Understanding Tribal Sovereignty: The Native American Rights Fund
One of the most difficult problems that Native Americans face is the lack of public knowledge about Native American legal […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Alessandro Pezzati
Edward Sapir and Tony Tillohash
Although Edward Sapir (1884–1939) is a famous figure in American anthropology and linguistics, his early career at the Penn Museum […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Tina Pierce Fragoso
Recruiting Native American Students to Penn
When I was eight years old I marched on the Bridgeton, New Jersey, courthouse wearing a homemade t-shirt that said, […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Margaret M. Bruchac
New Native American Studies Initiative at Penn
In January of 2013, the University of Pennsylvania welcomed Assistant Professor Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac (Abenaki) as the first Native […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Doug Kiel
Rebuilding Indigenous Nations: Native American Activism and the Long Red Power Movement
For more than a century, Native Americans have been rebuilding their Indigenous nations through a variety of activist networks, but […]
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