Director Henry Godinez recognizes that today’s divisive political environment might change how the play’s themes of “questioning facts, censoring knowledge” are perceived.
Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer, biologist, attorney, and former tribal judge, breaks down the myths and facts about Thanksgiving and early encounters between Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
A fascinating and timely history of how science developed via the achievement of pursuing only observation and experiment (not politics).
What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before.
I would say that science plays many roles in society; it definitely plays many roles in a democratic society. It is impossible to be completely apolitical, but I think that science is nonpartisan. There really is a difference between being not partisan and being political.
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