#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth On 9/24/1971, Michael Naranjo presented a bronze sculpture entitled “Dance of the Eagle” to President Nixon. The sculpture weighs about 35 pounds and is in our museum collection. Mr. Naranjo and the President reportedly kneeled on the floor of the Oval Office so Mr. Naranjo could “see” the Presidential Seal on the carpet with his hands. Born in 1944 in Santa Clara Pueblo, Mr. Naranjo is the son of noted ceramicist Rose Naranjo. Tragically, he was blinded by a grenade while fighting as an infantryman in the Vietnam War. He also lost practically all of the use of his right hand. After attending a VA rehabilitation center for the blind in California, he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to work as a sculptor. In 1999, the now-renowned sculptor was the first artist to be honored as the Disabled American Veterans’ Outstanding Disabled Veteran of the Year. A quote by Mr. Naranjo is inscribed on the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial on the National Mall, Washington, DC. (Image: WHPO-7353-04A)
Heartwarming story of a Native American Vietnam veteran and his contribution to the world of art.
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A 94% male military component is ill-suited to a peacekeeping environment. This is what more than 100 top military officials concluded during the 2017 Chiefs of Defence Conference earlier this month in New York.
Today women represent only 6% of deployed UN peacekeepers in the positions of staff officers and military observers.
The Head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, welcomed the conference’s focus on gender and he called on all troop contributing countries to increase this number to 15% by the end of 2017, a goal that he described as ‘modest’.
As of today only 16 out of the 120 troop contributing countries meet the required threshold: #Cambodia, #Canada, #Cyprus, #Kenya, #Liberia, #Moldova, #Mongolia, #Nigeria, #Peru, #SouthAfrica, #SouthKorea, #Tanzania, #Uganda, #UnitedStates, #Zambia, and #Zimbabwe. Deploying women in peacekeeping is a matter of efficiency and performance.
Women peacekeepers can empower women in the host communities, interview survivors of gender-based violence, strengthen the situational awareness of the mission by interacting with women in societies where women are prohibited from speaking to men, and assist female ex-combatants during the process of reintegration into civilian life.
