{"id":375,"date":"2004-09-13T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=375"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"et_tu_smithsoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/et_tu_smithsoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Et tu, Smithsonian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"NMAI.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/NMAI.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"50\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>\nThe name of a new museum in Washington, D.C. perpetuates a historical mistake. In the 21st century, the Smithsonian still saw fit to call it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmai.si.edu\">National Museum of the <i>American Indian<\/i><\/a>. In a farcical juxtaposition, even the hometown paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A16880-2004Sep12.html\">calls them <i>Native Americans<\/i><\/a> throughout the very same story.<\/p>\n\n<p>Researching desis in the U.S. has always been a pain because the injection of <i>American Indian<\/i> in search results forces you to use ever more tortured qualifiers like <i>East Indian<\/i> (which really means Bengali, Bihari, Oriya, Assamese&#8230;), <i>Asian Indian, Indian-American, South Asian<\/i> and <i>South Asian American.<\/i> This museum&#8217;s name just makes it worse. (I suppose it&#8217;s too late to ask the West Indies to choose a new moniker.)<\/p>\n\n<p>The sexy, curvy new museum sits on the National Mall between the Capitol and the spectacular aerospace museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of a new museum in Washington, D.C. perpetuates a historical mistake. In the 21st century, the Smithsonian still saw fit to call it the National Museum of the American Indian. In a farcical juxtaposition, even the hometown paper &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/et_tu_smithsoni\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}