{"id":62710,"date":"2022-01-06T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62710"},"modified":"2022-01-06T03:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:30:28","slug":"new-u-s-stamp-for-2022-honors-black-native-american-woman-from-upstate-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62710","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. stamp for 2022 honors Black, Native American woman from Upstate NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

New U.S. stamp for 2022 honors Black, Native American woman from Upstate NY<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Syracuse.com<\/a>
\n2022-01-02<\/p>\n

Geoff Herbert<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter and SEO Lead<\/p>\n

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New U.S. postal stamps honor Edmonia Lewis<\/a>, a Black and Native American sculptor from Upstate New York<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new U.S. stamp will honor an Upstate New York<\/a> woman who was the first Black and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Postal Service<\/a> said the 45th stamp in its Black Heritage series<\/a> will celebrate Edmonia Lewis<\/a>, who was born in 1844 in Greenbush, N.Y.<\/a>, and spent most of her career in Rome, Italy<\/a>. According to the Times Union<\/em>, her mother was an Ojibwa<\/a>\/Chippewa<\/a> woman from Albany<\/a> known for embroidering moccasins and her father was a freed slave who worked as a gentleman\u2019s servant in Rensselaer County<\/a>; when her mother died, Lewis was known as Wildfire while living with her maternal relatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe identified first as a Native American. Later she identified more as an African American. She was in two worlds. She deserves her stamp,\u201d Bobbie Reno, an East Greenbush<\/a> town historian who campaigned for Lewis\u2019 recognition, told the Times Union<\/em>…<\/p>\n

…According to the USPS, the Edmonia Lewis stamp will debut Wednesday, Jan. 26, at 12:30 p.m. ET at the Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/a> in Washington, D.C.<\/a> The stamp, which features a portrait of Lewis based on a photograph of her in Boston<\/a> between 1864 and 1871, will be available in post offices nationwide in panes of 20….<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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