First You Have to See It

01/14/22 • 20 min

The original Nelson-Atkins building has 23 panels carved on the outside, high up and kind of hard to see—really see. They tell a story of settler colonialism in the Midwest, filled with harmful stereotypes of Indigenous people. The story is fiction, but it’s told like monumental history. In this episode, we look closer at these public images with Native artists Mona Cliff, Alex Ponca Stock, Lucky Garcia, and Alex Kimball Williams.
Learn more about our guests, see the art in this episode, and read a transcript here.

01/14/22 • 20 min

A Frame of Mind - First You Have to See It

Transcript

(A pop of funky bass with a dance rhythm. We’re in the ‘70s.)

Glenn North: Once upon a time I went to Crispus Attucks Elementary School. When I was ten, Crispus Attucks was a hero of mine, because he was a Black man, and he was one of the first people who died in the American Revolution. He was one of the five colonists that were killed when the British opened fire at the Boston Massacre. All of us students were really proud that our school was named after h

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