Steward Udall, a great spirit
03/22/10 Filed in: Writings
Steward Udall, a great spirit
By Willie Iggiagruk Hensley
Posted at Alaska Dispatch, 3/22/10
This past weekend I learned that a great friend had passed away at the age of 90. After recovering from the sad but not unexpected news, I promptly remembered the last time I saw him in 2004 in Washington, D.C.
Bedecked in my sealskin vest, I had just walked into the Civil War-era Pension Building with its soaring Corinthian columns to help celebrate the opening of the Museum of the American Indian. The building was packed with a thousand chiefs, senators, congressmen, governors, Native Americans, ambassadors and bureaucrats, and the air was abuzz with chatter. The museum occupied the last open space on the Mall, and finally the United States had a monument to the indigenous people from whom the land had been wrested over the past 400 years.
MORE at Alaska Dispatch
By Willie Iggiagruk Hensley
Posted at Alaska Dispatch, 3/22/10
This past weekend I learned that a great friend had passed away at the age of 90. After recovering from the sad but not unexpected news, I promptly remembered the last time I saw him in 2004 in Washington, D.C.
Bedecked in my sealskin vest, I had just walked into the Civil War-era Pension Building with its soaring Corinthian columns to help celebrate the opening of the Museum of the American Indian. The building was packed with a thousand chiefs, senators, congressmen, governors, Native Americans, ambassadors and bureaucrats, and the air was abuzz with chatter. The museum occupied the last open space on the Mall, and finally the United States had a monument to the indigenous people from whom the land had been wrested over the past 400 years.
MORE at Alaska Dispatch