{"id":35876,"date":"2014-02-21T07:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35876"},"modified":"2014-02-23T23:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:57:24","slug":"the-red-and-the-white-a-family-saga-of-the-american-west-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35876","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American West&#8221; presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsci.nmsu.edu\/en\/calendar\/1019\/the-red-and-the-white-a-family-saga-of-the-american-west\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>&#8220;The Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American West&#8221; presentation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State University<br \/>\nNason House<br \/>\n1070 University Ave<br \/>\n<strong>Friday, 2014-02-21, 13:00-14:30 MST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>CLABS-Book Talk to be held Feb. 21<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Center for Latin American Border Studies<\/strong>-Book Talk titled \u201cThe Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American West&#8221; [on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29914\" target=\"_blank\">book by the same name<\/a>] by <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewgraybill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Graybill<\/a>, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at the Nason House. The event is free and open to the public. The Nason House is located on 1070 University Ave., across from FedEx Kinko\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>At dawn on Jan. 23, 1870, 400 men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan winter camp on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marias_River\" target=\"_blank\">Marias River<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montana\" target=\"_blank\">Montana<\/a> in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American military forces in U.S. history. Come to avenge the murder of their father \u2013 a former fur trader named Malcolm Clarke, killed four months earlier by his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piegan_Blackfeet\" target=\"_blank\">Piegan<\/a> wife\u2019s cousin \u2013 Clarke\u2019s own two sons rode with the cavalry that day and thus murdered their own blood relatives. Andrew R. Graybill places the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marias_Massacre\" target=\"_blank\">Marias Massacre<\/a> within a larger three-generation saga of the Clarke family, illuminating the complex history of native-white intermarriage in the American West.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public. For more information click <a href=\"http:\/\/artsci.nmsu.edu\/en\/calendar\/1019\/the-red-and-the-white-a-family-saga-of-the-american-west\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American West&#8221; presentation New Mexico State University Nason House 1070 University Ave Friday, 2014-02-21, 13:00-14:30 MST (Local Time) CLABS-Book Talk to be held Feb. 21 A Center for Latin American Border Studies-Book Talk titled \u201cThe Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,8,3015,20],"tags":[7666,12804,16996,1768,16997,16995,16994],"class_list":["post-35876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-andrew-graybill","tag-andrew-r-graybill","tag-center-for-latin-american-and-border-studies","tag-montana","tag-new-mexico-state-university","tag-peter-kopp","tag-tiffany-acosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}