We see it as [a] pattern of behavior of treating American Indians as second-class citizens, both on this campus and in the community,” said John McKinn, assistant director of American Indian Studies at the UI. “It’s just another attempt to devalue American Indians and their experience. It also speaks to the lack of education we all have for what constitutes art.
— from today’s News-Gazette article looking at the fishy process that led to the state placing a value of less than $300 on Edgar Heap of Birds’ signs.