After America in the Making

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Date/Time:Sunday, 02 Nov 2014 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location:Brunnier Art Museum, 295 Scheman Bldg.
Cost:Free
URL:www.museums.iastate.edu
Contact:University Museums
Phone:515-294-3342
Channel:University Museums
Categories:Arts, performances
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Join Christina Gish Hill, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, in a discussion focused on the federal policies of allotment which increased American settlement of the West by making Indian reservation lands available for purchase. These policies not only shaped the American landscape, they continue to affect American Indian people and their non-Native neighbors today.

N.C. Wyeth's "America in the Making" series depicts twelve dramatic scenes taken from American history beginning with North American explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and ending with Abraham Lincoln. But, what are some of the major American moments of the 20th and 21st centuries?