Panels from the original 2019 exhibit.
Image from American Indian Freemasonry (1919) by Arthur Caswell Parker: https://archive.org/details/americanindianfr00parkuoft Seneca Museologist, Archaeologist, and Folklorist Arthur Caswell Parker (Gawaso Wanneh) (1881– 1955) Born on the Seneca tribe’s Cattaraugus Reservation in New York, Parker was descended from a long line of Seneca leaders on his father’s side but born of a white mother who was …
Photo courtesy of Texas State University Teacher, Community Historian, and Author María Elena Zamora O’Shea (1880–1951) María Elena Zamora O’Shea, teacher, lay historian, and author, was born at Rancho La Noria Cardenena near Peñitas, Hidalgo County, Texas. Growing up on the ranch in the 1880s and 1890s, where she was taught to read and write …
Photo from the files of J. Manuel Espinosa Hispano New Mexican Folklorist and Linguist Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa, Sr. (1880–1958) Aurelio Espinosa, Sr. was a scholar internationally known for his studies in Spanish and American folklore and philology. Born in El Carnero, Colorado, in the mostly Hispanic San Luis Valley, he learned about Spanish folk tales …
Photo courtesy of Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, ful.alu.pho014 Scientist and African American Folklorist Thomas Washington Talley (1870–1952) Dr. Thomas W. Talley, a Tennessee native, taught chemistry and biology at Fisk University from 1903–42, after earning his high school education, an AB in 1890, and a master’s degree in …
Photo courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution [BAE GN 3463] Santee Dakota Physician, Advocate, and Folklorist Charles Alexander Eastman, MD (Ohíye S’a) (1858–1939) Charles Alexander Eastman was born in a buffalo hide tipi near Redwood Falls, Minnesota in winter 1858. In the Dakota naming tradition to mark life passages, he, as the last …