Instead Of Trashing Or Replacing Its Old-Style, Stereotyped Colonists-Meet-Indians Diorama, This Museum Is Interrogating It
(ArtsJournal Dance)

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 […]