Role Author Name Paul Smith | Ethnicity Comanche Language English | |
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Nationality American (Comanche Nation) Books Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong, Like a hurricane | ||
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Paul Chaat Smith is a noted Comanche author and an associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian. He writes and lectures frequently on American Indian art and politics.
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- Q a author paul chaat smith editor jason weidemann
- Kay walkingstick symposium 12 paul chaat smith closing remarks
- Curatorial practice
- Writing
- Other work
- Publications
- References
Kay walkingstick symposium 12 paul chaat smith closing remarks
Curatorial practice
Smith has been an associate curator for the National Museum of the American Indian since 2001. In 2004, he was responsible for setting up the museum's permanent history gallery.
In 2005, he worked with fellow curator Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk) to sponsor and produce an exhibition by performance and installation artist James Luna at the 51st Venice Biennale, which included a performance dedicated to Pablo Tac.
In 2008 and 2009, he organized a major retrospective for Fritz Scholder called Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian.
In 2009 and 2010, Smith produced a show for Canadian artist Brian Jungen, called Strange Comfort.
Smith has worked to promote the work of many other Native American and Aboriginal Canadian artists, including Richard Ray Whitman, Faye HeavyShield, and Kent Monkman.
Writing
Smith is the author, with Robert Allen Warrior, of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. This account of American Indian activism "has already become a classic and essential interpretive work". The book focuses on three pivotal events in Native American activism, the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz, the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and subsequent BIA building takeover, and the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation.
His humorous but informative book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, took 16 years to compile.
Other work
Smith has lectured at such institutions as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He served as an academic advisor for the PBS series, We Shall Remain, Episode 5: Wounded Knee.