It is a window with many panels, representing the many media and styles used by the artists. The vision gained into that room of culture is a vision of many angles, of different points of view. These many perspectives must be seen as a whole in order to illuminate much of that inner, cultural, room. No one person, no single point of view, can adequately describe everything within that room. Each of us is left to make his or her own final interpretation.
Art holds a light beside the window, and calls people of vision to look inside.
For more information, visit the Native American Resource Center in historic Old Main Building, on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I wonder how many people realize just how subjective history is. If we read the English colonial accounts, then certain things appear to be true. John White and Roanoke Island appear to be important. Eugenia Burney's Colonial North Carolina begins with accounts of Walter Raleigh's colonial efforts in the 1580's on behalf of Elizabeth I, Queen of England.