civilized ku # 1024 ~ a diamond in the rough
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 01:42PM 
Six Nations Indian Museum ~ Onchiota, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenEarlier today, the wife, Hugo, and I bicycled down the road a piece to visit the Six Nations Indian Museum.
As is most often the case when I experience firsthand things Native American, I left the museum feeling rather melancholy. It is impossible for me to experience such things without being overwhelmed by thoughts of the fate that befell the Native Indian Nations all across the Americas as Euroman swept across the land like a plague. The word "genocide" barely begins to describe that particular episode in the history of America and the Americas.
In any event, I'll have some additional pictures of the Six Nation Indian Museum - over 3,000 artifacts crammed into a verymodest 4 room building - and a few bits of Native Indian life and culture as soon as I'm back in the saddle (cowboy and indian speak wise).
Reader Comments (1)
Have you yet read "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History"
By S. C. Gwynne(http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/printers-row/2010/07/review-empire-of-the-summer-moon-gwynne.html)?
Just finished it. Highly recommended for an interesting alternative look at the fate of the american indians. This is the first book I've read that does not glamorize one side or the other and it is very revealing of the deep gulf between the two cultures that collided so tragically.