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Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche author, essayist, and curator. His books and exhibitions focus on the contemporary landscape of American Indian politics and culture.

Smith joined the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in 2001, where he currently serves as Associate Curator. His projects include the NMAI’s history gallery, performance artist James Luna’s Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian (2008), and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort (2009).

With Robert Warrior, he is the author of Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (New Press, 1996), a standard text in Native studies and American history courses. His second book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, was ...more

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	Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (Indigenous Americas Series) 3.78 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Officially Indian: Symbols that Define the United States by Cécile Ganteaume, Colin G. Calloway (Foreword), Paul Chaat Smith (Afterword) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian by Lowery Stokes Sims (Editor), Paul Chaat Smith, Truman Lowe 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World by Anne Ellegood, Jennifer A. González (Contributor), Fred Moten (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faye HeavyShield: Blood 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Luna: Emendatio by Lisbeth Haas, Paul Chaat Smith 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kindred Spirits: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art by Paul Chaat Smith (Contributor), Carter Ratcliff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Agnes Martin (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian by Truman T. Lowe (2008-08-02) by Paul Chaat Smith, Fritz Scholder, Sim Stokes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (Indigenous Americas Series)] [By: Smith, Paul Chaat] [April, 2009] by Paul Chaat Smith, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The preposterous, wonderful, and breathtakingly ambitious project known officially as the National Museum of the American Indian (NAMI) seeks to tell a new kind of history, a new way, yet it too has a history like all others. And like the others its reading is incomplete without knowing how and when it came together, the conventional wisdom of the age, the furious debates the historians engaged in or avoided, who collected the pieces and assembled them, the name of the person who wrote the first drafts and the final edits, who paid for it and why, where the missing footnotes and excised chapters are kept (if they were kept). In other words, no history is complete without the history of the history.”
― Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

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“Nixon may have cared nothing for Indians himself. Yet Indians cared about him. Today his administration is widely regarded as one of the most pro-Indian of the twentieth century, one that reversed the hated termination of federal reservations and restored Indian lands to tribes, and ushered in a new era of self-determination.”
― Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

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