About My Books

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"This Day in North American Indian History"
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"Native American History For Dummies"
I wrote 6 of the 24 chapters for this book.
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"Treaties With American Indians"
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I flew from San Diego to the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. International airport on

September 15th, 2004. The grand opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum

of the American Indian (NMAI) was scheduled for September 21st. The NMAI is

billed as the last major museum to be built on the Mall in D.C. As a Cherokee

and an author/historian, I was very interested in the museum. I had never been

to Washington before, so this seemed to be the perfect time for a visit. I flew home on the 22nd.


I visited almost all of the museums on "The Mall" in D.C. I also saw many of

the monuments, memorials and other historical features of the area during my week

there. Prior to leaving home, I rebroke one of my toes. This and some blisters

which formed, left my feet very sore. Considering that I walked

over 20 miles during this one week visit, my feet were very tired by the end of

my trip. I stayed in the Foggy Botton area. My hotel was located in the middle of

George Washington University's fraternity/sorority row. The hotel looked like

something out of the movie Animal House. It was old and run down. Thus, it was

one of the cheapest places to stay near the Mall. This did not bother me. I have

often joked that Motel 6 is too fancy for me. The hotel was two blocks from the

Kennedy Center, and about five or six blocks from both the Lincoln Memorial and

the White House. It was also just a couple of blocks from the Metro subway

system. I used this excellent transportation system quite often.


During past trips, I often felt that I was taking lots of pictures. Then, when I

got home, I thought I had not taken enough. This time I made a point of

taking many pictures. In fact, I took over 1,300 pictures with my Sony Mavica-91

digital camera. The Mavica stores its photos on a 3.5 floppy disc. This limits the size

and number of photos you can take. This means the quality is less that most cameras

made today. The camera has seen lots of wear having gone through several trips

through the U.S., and literally through the jungles of Central America twice. The

autofocus has now started to perform less well than when the camera was new. Many

museums in D.C. feature low lighting in order to preserve fragile, or old material.

Some of these digital photos had to be manipulated by software in order for them

to be seen. With flash photography being against the rules, I relied upon this

post-vacation manipulation to make these photos presentable, at least. I had mixed

results doing this. Taking photos out of a commercial airliners window has always

been sketchy at best. Getting focused & the colors right is a challenge.


I have posted an index at the bottom of each page. You can click any of these lines

in order to go to a page which interests you.


And so, here we go...Click on any photo below to see a much larger version of it. The page index is at the bottom.


Photo album created with Web Album Generator






2004 D.C. trip - Page 1 - San Diego-Washington DC In-flight photos
2004 D.C. trip - Page 2 - In-flight photos / White House / Washington Monument / National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) - outside / Air & Space Museum
2004 D.C. trip - Page 3 - Air & Space / Law Enforcement Memorial / National Gallery of Art
2004 D.C. trip - Page 4 - National Gallery of Art / Ford Theatre/ Lincoln's death site / U.S. Capitol / National Archive documents
2004 D.C. trip - Page 5 - National Archive documents / Museum of Natural History
2004 D.C. trip - Page 6 - Museum of Natural History / Museum of American History / Arlington Cemetary
2004 D.C. trip - Page 7 - Arlington Cemetary / National Cathedral
2004 D.C. trip - Page 8 - Lincoln Memorial / War Memorials / Jefferson Memorial / Watergate / Supreme Court / NMAI Cultural Resource Center
2004 D.C. trip - Page 9 - NMAI Cultural Resource Center
2004 D.C. trip - Page 10 - NMAI Cultural Resource Center
2004 D.C. trip - Page 11 - NMAI Cultural Resource Center / Opening Day Procession of the Nations at the NMAI
2004 D.C. trip - Page 12 - Opening Day Procession of the Nations at the NMAI / Inside the NMAI
2004 D.C. trip - Page 13 - Inside the NMAI
2004 D.C. trip - Page 14 - Inside the NMAI / going home









since September 4, 2005



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