Mother Earth, Father Skyline

Download or read book Mother Earth, Father Skyline written by George Gustav Heye and published by Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask people to link the words "Indians" and "New York City," and what comes to mind? The sale of Manhattan to the Dutch? A subway poster for Levy's Jewish Rye? Cleveland versus the Yankees? In fact, New York City is home to the largest urban Indian population in the United States. Mother Earth, Father Skyline presents the experiences of Native Americans in the world's most exciting city. Through photographs, illustrations, and brief essays, Duane Blue Spruce traces the Native presence in New York, from a National Indian Memorial proposed for Staten Island in the early 20th century, to Jock Soto (Navajo) dancing at Lincoln Center, to the contemporary Native art on view at the George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan, the New York venue of the National Museum of the American Indian.