What are听the lasting effects of the myths of the American West and the myths of Native peoples in the United States?
The Center of the American West听has听teamed up with the National Park Service to facilitate Indigenous听responses to the听Zane Grey House Museum in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. The "Native Peoples and the Zane Grey Museum" project seeks to听engage Native peoples鈥� perspectives of, experiences with, and creative responses to Zane Grey鈥檚听myths about the western United States and beyond.
Before relocating to California for filmmaking, Zane Grey's literary career took off in his home in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. This structure is now both a museum to his life and a vistor's center for the听larger听Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River which is admistered by the National Park Service. The NPS is looking to update the museum to include Indigenous interpretive expertise from the western American people and places听of Zane Grey's legacy.
Zane Grey was a very popular writer of Western novels, where听he traveled through and wrote extensively about the Southwest. Grey wrote many one-dimensional Nativecharacters, including some Hopi, Paiute, and Navajo characters. These characters were loosely based on real people Grey met in his travels.听
CAW Research Trips
In late April 2023, representatives from the Center of the American West and the National Park Service traveled to Arizona and听the Navajo Nation to meet with Navajo and Paiute people听who have听connections with Zane Grey鈥檚 work.听Here are some photo highlights from the trip.
