Author: Matthew Thompson
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“Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined,” West Wyandotte Public Library
Curated by Dr. Randall Griffey of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and supported by the Mid-America Arts Alliance, "Imprinting the West" offers a glimpse of how the United States interpreted the existence of its Indigenous population.