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Big Idea: Sharing Women's Stories in Museums
Dr. Sarah Bell, Director, and Donna Rae Pearson, Curator, Kansas Museum of History, in conversation with Big Idea host Dr. Valerie Mendoza as they discuss the future of telling women's stories in museums.
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Big Idea: African American Storytelling in Museums
Kansas history is African American history and has been since before settlement. In museums, however, the stories of African Americans are often missing or inaccurate.
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Big Idea: Indigenous Storytelling in Museums
Building relationships represents an important new approach by the museum community and one that begins with trust. Who tells the stories of Indigenous history?
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Big Idea: The Power of Imagery and the Civil Rights Experience
Ann Dean looks to imagery as a lens into the Civil Rights Experience in America.
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Big Idea: Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality in Kansas
Valerie Mendoza looks at the ways the Latino communities banded together to fight discrimination and demand equal protection under the law, focusing special attention on Kansas examples.
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Big Idea: Discourse for a Better Community
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: Stories of Resilience and Determination: African American Genealogy Research in Kansas
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: Harriet Tubman, Freedom's Conductor
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: Democracy As a Matter of the Spirit
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: How Should We Honor Someone's Military Service?
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: Doing Indigenous Language
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: Turning Land Acknowledgements into Action…In a Good Way
Joy Murphy explores the need for Kansas museums to engage in community conversations, even when the topics may be tough and controversial.
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Big Idea: American Indian Students Define Success in Their Own Terms
Dr. Darryl Monteau explores her research findings on the persistence and accomplishments of American Indian graduate students who did their undergraduate work at a tribal college or university.
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Big Idea: Story as Medicine
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee Nation) explores the power of words in Indigenous storytelling and poetry, including the work of Joy Harjo, in her Big Idea "Story as Medicine."
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Big Idea: Confronting the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Eric P. Anderson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) writes about how the cultural and moral injury inflicted by Indian boarding schools, like Haskell Institute, impacted generations of families and still reverberate today.
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Big Idea: Natives Making News: Toward a More Authentic and Ethical Representation of American Indian Identity, Issues, and Individuals
Dr. Melissa Greene-Blye's Big Idea examines why news media often fail to offer authentic representations of Indigenous communities and individuals.
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Big Idea: The Current State of Indigenous Storytelling
Rodrick Pocowatchit's Big Idea examines representation in film and pop culture.
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