Paul Chaat Smith's guest appearances

Paul Chaat Smith

Power Station

Faces of the Frontier, Audio Tour - Audio Tour

PORTRAITS

The Creative Process · Arts, Culture and Society

Siri Hustvedt

Eben Alexander

François Clemmons

Neil Patrick Harris

Mitch Horowitz

Jericho Brown

Ami Vitale

Ralph Gibson

Yann Martel

Tobias Wolff

Gabrielle Hamilton

Jay McInerney

Renée Fleming

Jo Koy

Nicholas Christakis

OwlTail

Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche  writer and curator. He  joined the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in 2001, where he serves as Associate Curator. His projects include the NMAI’s history gallery, performance artist James Luna’s Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort. With Robert Warrior, he is the author of Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, a standard text in Native studies and American history courses. His second book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong is a memoir and commentary from Paul about the contradictions of life in the Indian business.

PAUL CHAAT SMITH

If the 1995 animated Disney film is your guide, Pocahontas was a free-spirited Native American heroine who sang to the wind. So why is she dressed like European royalty in her painting at the National Portrait Gallery? Curator and author Paul Chaat Smith separates out what we know and what we think we know about this iconic figure. Check out the portraits we discuss on our website: https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/pondering-pocahontas

<p>If the 1995 animated Disney film is your guide, Pocahontas was a free-spirited Native American heroine who sang to the wind. So why is she dressed like European royalty in her painting at the National Portrait Gallery? Curator and author Paul Chaat Smith separates out what we know and what we think we know about this iconic figure.</p> <p>Check out the portraits we discuss on our website: <a href="https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/pondering-pocahontas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/pondering-pocahontas</a></p>

Discovering Pocahontas with Paul Chaat Smith

Jackson Turner

02 - Frederick Jackson Turner, by Paul Chaat Smith, curator at the National Museum of American Indian