This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, and the notable book of the same title that accompanies the exhibition. In this segment, James Riding In speaks on the panel topic, "Bad Acts / Bad Paper." James Riding In (Pawnee) is an associate professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies and the co-editor of Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History. His research about repatriation, as well as historical and contemporary Indian issues, has appeared in numerous books and scholarly journals.
This symposium was webcast and recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. on September 18. 2014.