Instead Of Trashing Or Replacing Its Old-Style, Stereotyped Colonists-Meet-Indians Diorama, This Museum Is Interrogating It
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a 1939 diorama purporting to show a diplomatic meeting between governor Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan) and some Lenape Indians, and " not everything in it is wrong (Stuyvesant really did have a pegleg), but in 2019, you can't call it accurate. So […]
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