Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Artist Harvey Pratt's "Warriors' Circle of Honor" will have a large, upright stainless steel circle set above a stone drum in the center of a circular walkway with carvings of the five military seals.
Native Americans have served in the United States military at a higher rate than any other ethnic group –and in 2020, a memorial honoring those veterans is coming to the American Indian Museum.
The winning design, selected this week, is by Harvey Pratt, a veteran and member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The former forensic artist joins Kojo and the project’s curator to talk about the significance of the memorial.
Guests
- Harvey Pratt Designer, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Native American Veterans Memorial
- Rebecca Trautmann Project Curator, National Museum of the American Indian; @SmithsonianNMAI
Warriors' Circle of Honor
Groundbreaking for the memorial is slated for September 21, 2019. It is slated to open in late 2020.
Harvey Pratt, a Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal member, worked as a forensic sketch artist in Oklahoma. He is also a veteran of the Vietnam War.
An illustration of the new memorial's location by Lou Spirito.
An artist’s rendering of the Capitol dome as seen through Harvey Pratt’s proposed “Warriors’ Circle of Honor.”
Lakota Flag Song
Every tribe has a flag song to honor those who’ve served. During today’s show, we played the Lakota Flag Song.
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