[nativestudies-l] Upcoming play at the NMAI, NYC

[alyssa.mt.pleasant at yale.edu]

The National Museum of the American Indian presents a staged production of
GRANDCHILDREN OF THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS By William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. Produced
by Trinity Repertory Company and Penumbra Theater Company

Thursday, February 2, 2006, 6:00 p.m.

National Museum of the American Indian
George Gustav Heye Center
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212-514-3700

Auditorium

When Craig Robe returns home after more than a decade away from the Montana
reservation where he grew up, he rediscovers a family still haunted by the
issues of racial identity and prejudice from which he originally fled.
Descended from a Native American grandmother and an African American
grandfather, a member of the famous post-Civil War cavalry regiment nicknamed
"buffalo soldiers." The Robe family has been kept on the fringes of Native life
for two generations where they have had to struggle to be accepted on only by
their tribe but more importantly by each other. Granchildren of the Buffalo
Soldiers asks audiences to consider their racial and cultural identity while
maintaining a compassionate and open-minded view of the complexity of mixed
racial heritage in America, and in Native communities.