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Contemporary Conversations: Why We Serve: Native Americans in the US Armed Forces

Celebrate Native American Heritage & Military Family Months

A presentation by Alexandra N. Harris, senior editor at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, discussing her book Why We Serve: Native Americans in the US Armed Forces.

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month and Military Family Month, Alexandra N. Harris, senior editor at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, will discuss the book and exhibition she co-authored with Dr. Mark Hirsch, entitled Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces (2020). Published in conjunction with the establishment of the National Native American Veterans Memorial on the museum’s grounds, Why We Serve chronicles the long history of service by American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians in the US military. Harris will discuss the book’s major themes and touch on significant contributions made by Indigenous service members.

Alexandra A. Harris is a senior editor at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), where she writes and edits exhibitions, their companion books, and other scholarly publications. She is a graduate of the Smithsonian’s Emerging Leaders Development Program and her editorial projects have earned awards for excellence in research from the Secretary of the Smithsonian. Prior to her work at the Smithsonian, she was a curator at the Barona Cultural Center and Museum, the tribal museum of the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and taught college courses on American Indian and California Indian culture and history. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in American Indian Studies.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County. 

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