Mascots, Myths, Monuments, and Memory 09 — Julian Brave NoiseCat

653 views · Published 10 March 2018 · 14:34 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: SmithsonianNMAI · 2018 · Education

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Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen), writer and policy analyst, 350.org, continues the discussion of Monuments and Power: Memory vs. History. The symposium Mascots, Myths, Monuments, and Memory examines the history and contested memory of racialized mascots, Civil War monuments, and other public symbols and memorials. 

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, self-described wonk, and activist. You can find his reporting and commentary in The Guardian and on the CBC, as well as in Vice, Jacobin, Splinter News, HuffPost, Indian Country Today, The Marshall Project, Salon, High Country News, Canadian Geographic, World Policy Journal, and other publications. He is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and a descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie. 

This program was webcast and recorded in the Oprah Winfrey Theater or the National Museum of African American History and Culture on March 3, 2018.

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