{"id":14689,"date":"2021-08-23T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2021-12-02T05:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:47:38","slug":"the-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=14689","title":{"rendered":"The Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn’t know anything about<\/strong> The Heard Museum<\/a> when I bought a ticket, as I was just looking to pass the time over the weekend. Being a lover of museums in general, I was excited to see what offerings were to be found in downtown Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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What I found is that<\/strong> The Heard is dedicated towards advancing not only American Indian Art, but the history of its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I learned the sad story of the Indian Boarding School program that our government implemented last century, and the effects of this “re-education” on people to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The before and after images <\/strong>of children’s hair being cut so that their appearance was normalized made my heart hurt profoundly. I remember an Indian Boarding School in Northern Utah that we would occasionally drive by on our way to see relatives, and I would hear the stories of smallpox being placed in blankets given to the students and faculty that were staying here. Those buildings always haunted me as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will never look at the Indian School road<\/strong> the same way again. The road that cuts through the Valley of the Sun has new meaning to me now. History that deserves to be preserved & remembered, not knocked down and replaced with modern day structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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