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	Motorcycle Online: So That's an Indian! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Indian and Harley-Davidson both supplied large numbers of motorcycles to the military during World War II, but Harley managed to negotiate much better contracts, and Indian was left perilously cash-poor by the end of the war.
		Indian continued producing the Chief model while the new factory was under construction, then subsequently quit building Chiefs at the end of 1948 when the line workers were transferred to produce vertical singles and twins.
		Indian dealers sold the AMC models alongside the Blackhawk Chiefs during these years, but in 1954 the venerable V-twin was replaced by a 700cc Royal Enfield model.
	www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcmuseum/indintro.html (763 words)

	Cafe Locale - History and Points of Interest - Nanticoke Indian Museum
		The Nanticoke Indian Museum on Route 24 in Oak Orchard opened in 1984 and has given the tribe a means of preserving not only items belonging to its ancestors, but also artifacts such as arrowheads and stones that have been unearthed during the past century.
		The museum also has a rarity in the form of a large cooking pot that is mostly intact.
		One glass case houses a tribute to Seneca Indian Chief Big Tree, who in 1963 at the age of 98 was the last Native American to have his profile featured on the Indian-head nickel.
	www.cafelocale.com /history/nanticokemuseum.html (583 words)

	Antelope Valley Indian Museum (DesertUSA)
		The Antelope Valley Indian Museum in the western Mojave Desert is two historical entities in one.
		The museum is operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.
		She opened the Edwards' house as the Antelope Valley Indian Museum in the early 1940 and operated it for the next three decades, continuously adding to the collections.
	www.desertusa.com /magjan98/poi/jan_avmuseum.html (646 words)

	Buffalo Bill Historical Center
		The Plains Indian Museum tells the significant story of the lives of Plains Indian peoples, their cultures, traditions, values and histories, as well as the contexts of their lives today.
		The Plains Indian Museum sponsors the spectacular Plains Indian Museum Powwow held each June in the Robbie Powwow Garden at the BBHC.
		The Plains Indian Museum Seminar in the fall brings together scholars from around the world to discuss topics relating to the cultures and art of Plains Indians.
	www.bbhc.org /pim/index.cfm (363 words)

	History of the Indian Museum Calcutta.
		A multipurpose and multi disciplinary institution of national importance, the Museum was established at the Asiatic Society, the earliest learned body in the country on 2nd February 1814.
		The administrative control of the cultural sections, viz Art, Archaeology and Anthropology rests with the Board of Trustees under its Directorate, and that of the three scientific sections is with Geological Survey of India, Zoological Survey of India and Botanical Survey of India.
		Indian Museum is an autonomous institution fully funded by the Department of Culture, Government of India.
	www.indianmuseumkolkata.org /history.html (288 words)

	Indian Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian Museum was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at Serampore (originally called Frederischnagore) near Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814.
		It is a multi-disciplinary institution of national standing and is one of oldest museums in the world.
		This was the first museum of its kind in Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Museum (129 words)

	Antelope Valley Indian Museum SHP
		The Antelope Valley Indian Museum is closed indefinitely for stabilization.
		The museum was originally constructed by homesteader/artist H. Arden Edwards in 1928.
		Next to the museum is a self-guided nature trail, a picnic area, and an outdoor ceremonial arena.
	www.parks.ca.gov /default.asp?page_id=632 (438 words)

	USATODAY.com - New Indian museum seeks balance of historical and contemporary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — The newest Smithsonian museum is gathering ancient ceramics, intricate beadwork and modern art to illustrate the past and present of native peoples spread across the Western Hemisphere for some 20,000 years.
		When the National Museum of the American Indian opens Sept. 21, it will seek to give the appropriate weight to injustices suffered at the hands of white settlers — but will not make that the focus of a history that sweeps over millennia.
		The Indian museum will be surrounded by 700 trees and a wetlands area with plants such as yellow pond-lily and wild rice.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-08-16-indian-museum_x.htm (951 words)

	Museum of the Plains Indian at the junction of Highways 2 & 89 in Browning Montana
		Museum of the Plains Indian at the junction of Highways 2 & 89 in Browning Montana
		The Museum of the Plains Indian, administered by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U.S. Department of the Interior, has an annual calendar of events that are posted regularly.
		In addition to the Museum of the Plains Indian, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board administers the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota, and the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
	www.browningmontana.com /museum.html (498 words)

	PAMUNKEY INDIAN MUSEUM
		The major focus of the Pamunkey Indian Museum is to teach about the Pamunkey people and their way of life throughout history, from the ice age to the present.
		Some visitors find a trip through a museum dissatisfying because it is impossible to envision the lives of the people being represented merely by looking at a display case full of artifacts that may or may not be recognizable; the Pamunkey Indian Museum is a refreshing change.
		The museum is an educational experience so broad in scope as to appeal to the casual observer; yet it still maintains a wealth of information for those who wish to take the time to review the displays in depth.
	home.earthlink.net /~pamunkey/museum.htm (629 words)

	Submarine (Ex-KURSURA) Museum - Indian Navy
		The induction of INS Kursura show cased the augmentation of the 3rd dimension of the Indian Navy.
		She was the corner stone of foundation of Indian Naval Submarine Arm.
		The museum was inaugurated by Mr Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Ministar of Andhara Pradesh on 09th August 2002 and opened for public on 24th August 2002.
	indiannavy.nic.in /museum.htm (193 words)

	Iroquois Indian Museum
		The Iroquois Indian Museum is an educational institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Iroquois culture using Iroquois art as a window to that culture.
		The museum is a venue for promoting Iroquois art and artists, and a meeting place for all peoples to celebrate Iroquois culture and diversity.
		As an anthropological institution, it is informed by research on archaeology, history, and the common creative spirit of modern artists and craftspeople.
	www.iroquoismuseum.org (138 words)

	museum
		A major attraction of the museum is the full-scale re-construction of a longhouse, the very type of home used by the
		This regional museum serves as an educational institution to preserve the history of the Piscataway tribe as well as the cultural
		The museum requests that there is one chaperone per 20 students.
	www.piscatawayindians.org /museum.html (423 words)

	Indian museum opens in Washington
		Many said they hope the museum, the latest addition to the Smithsonian Institution, will be a tool to reflect on the past and present of Native American cultures and to ponder what lies ahead.
		In anticipation of the large crowds, the museum was to stay open around the clock for 29 hours from 1 p.m.
		In all, nearly 8,000 pieces of artwork, tools, clothing and literature are housed at the museum, though the collection is a fraction of the nearly 800,000 Native American artifacts that the Smithsonian has acquired over the years.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/191898_museum22.html (752 words)

	Minnesota Historic Sites: Mille Lacs Indian Museum
		The museum's spacious crafts room serves as a demonstration area for traditional cooking, birch-bark basketry and beadwork.
		Adjacent to the museum, a restored trading post retains its 1930s appearance.
		Museum is open by appointment for group and educational tours only.
	www.mnhs.org /places/sites/mlim (294 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush marks opening of Indian museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		"The National Museum of Indian affairs affirms that this young country is home to an ancient, noble and enduring native culture," Bush said in the East Room of the White House.
		The five-story museum is situated on four acres between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, and takes up the last remaining spot on the grassy National Mall.
		The American Indian Movement, an activist group, issued a statement claiming the museum failed to display the tragic history of the U.S. government's "holocaust" against the nations and peoples of the Americas.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-09-23-bush-museum_x.htm (518 words)

	Museum & Lodge -- Indian City USA
		The Indian City Lodge is where the tour of the Villages begins.
		Open 365 days a year, the Indian City Museum was established to preserve items of indian origin.
		The museum houses the most extensive display of indian artifacts in the southwest.
	www.indiancityusa.com /museum.asp (84 words)

	Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: A Museum's Many Miles
		The next year Gladys Tantaquidgeon joined her father and brother in opening the one-room Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, in the Uncasville section of Montville, Conn., 80 miles east of New York City.
		Both came home to live in the family house next door to the museum, and Harold tended museum affairs until a few years before his death in 1989, at age 85.
		Everything was shipshape when the museum opened on May 24 for the first group of this season—the Tolland students, who also visited an exhibit of Mohegan artifacts recently installed in the new addition to the 1831 church.
	www.nationaltrust.org /magazine/archives/arch_story/062102.htm (1109 words)

	Colorado's Historic Sites - Ute Indian Museum
		The Ute Museum sits in the heart of traditional Ute territory on lands once homesteaded by Chief Ouray.
		The museum complex includes shady picnic areas, walking paths, and a memorial to the Spanish conquistadors who traveled through the area in 1776.
		Behind the museum is a link to a walking trail that is a part of a larger city-wide walking trail system.
	www.coloradohistory.org /hist_sites/UteIndian/Ute_indian.htm (212 words)

	First BIA commissioner created Indian museum : ICT [2004/09/23]
		Nearly 200 years before the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian, a superintendent of the Indian Affairs Office sought urgently to collect items from various Indian nations in an effort to preserve the history of what he saw as a vanishing race.
		In 1824, McKenney sought alphabets and grammars of Indian languages, urging missionaries working with the Indians to move quickly on those because the interest in preserving Indian culture was lagging, according to Viola.
		JoAllyn Archambault, director of the American Indian Program at the National Museum of Natural History with the Smithsonian Institute, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, said she was very familiar with McKenney's collections, but she wasn't sure if any of the surviving pieces from his collection were exhibited in the museum.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1095968563 (797 words)

	Welcome to the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society
		The Society maintains a historic park on the lake which was for hundreds of years a Washoe Indian campsite, and is now home to two premiere Museums in Tahoe.
		The Gatekeeper's Log Cabin Museum, situated among ancient conifers on the south bank of Lake Tahoe's only outlet, was built in 1981 with funds raised by the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society.
		It was Marion Steinbach’s intent to collect a variety of Indian basket and artifact types for as many tribes as possible, and the woven works range in size from burden baskets measuring nearly three feet in diameter to highly detailed sample pieces as small as 1/4".
	www.northtahoemuseums.org (1763 words)

	American Indian Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The museum is located on the National Mall, between Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and the U.S. Capitol Building.
		The Chesapeake Museum Store, which is on the first level of the museum, will have jewelry, textiles, and other works by Native artisans.
		The Roanoke Museum Store, which is on the second floor of the museum, will have souvenirs and children’s books and toys.
	www.carteretcountyschools.org /aes/dc05/amindian.htm (573 words)

	Welcome to Noteworthy Indian Museum
		Along with four other Indian nations to the west, the Mohawk formed the League of the Iroquois.
		Our museum celebrates these tradtional values through artifacts, ancient legend, and stories all presented in a modern comfortable venue that speaks to the past as well as the present.
		The Mohawk Valley is rich with the history of Indian villages that begin over 900 years ago, and colonial occupation by Dutch, Palatine, English and French.
	www.greatturtle.net (236 words)

	Indian Valley Museum, Taylorsville, CA
		The museum houses many artifacts representing the period from the 1860's through the 1940's.
		The museum is in Taylorsville, at the east end of Indian Valley.
		Except for special openings, the admission to the museum is free, but donations are always appreciated.
	www.indianvalley.net /iv-museum/index.html (279 words)

	Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum
		The Tomaquag Museum maintains a collection of Native American artifacts from across the continent, but is especially proud of its large and varied collection of Southern New England ash splint baskets.
		The museum also maintains a large doll collection featuring lovely corn husk dolls, as well as many other historical articles and archeological specimens from this area.
		Nuweetooun School does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, color, religion, disability, or national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, scholarship programs, admissions and hiring policies.
	www.tomaquagmuseum.com (122 words)

	Sherman Indian Museum
		His work has a sophisticated starkness which almost forces an observer to be aware of the truths he talked about as a young man, and of which he talks of now.
		The Perris Indian School was established in 1892.
		There are copies of museum archives on microfilm at the State Library in Sacramento and the Public Library in Fresno.
	www.shermanindianmuseum.org (262 words)

	OHS Places/Indian Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		In a scenic location along the Sandusky River, Indian Mill, built in 1861, is the nation's first educational museum of milling in its original structure.
		The restored three-story structure replaces the original one-story building that the U. government built in 1820 to reward the loyalty of local Wyandot Indians during the War of 1812.
		Indian Mill is three miles northeast of Upper Sandusky, in Wyandot County, along County Road 47 on the bank of the Sandusky River.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/indian (109 words)

	Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
		The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian hosts changing exhibitions of contemporary and historic Native American art with an emphasis on the Southwest.
		The museum and the Case Trading Post museum shop sponsor talks, seminars, meet-the-artist receptions, and many other events.
		A private, not-for-profit institution, the Wheelwright Museum does not charge an admission fee, and most of its events are free.
	www.wheelwright.org (96 words)

	State Indian Museum
		On the grounds of Sutter’s Fort in downtown Sacramento, the California State Indian Museum displays exhibits and artifacts illustrating the culture of the state’s earliest inhabitants.
		The artifacts in the museum include basketry, beadwork, clothing and exhibits about the ongoing traditions of various California Native American groups.
		Travel straight on 30th Street then turn left under the freeway at L Street to the Sutter's Fort and the State Indian Museum, which will be located on your right.
	www.parks.ca.gov /default.asp?page_id=486 (363 words)

	American Indian museum featured in electronic field trip : ICT [2005/04/12]
		The ''Sharing Perspectives at the National Museum of the American Indian'' broadcast was the first distance-learning event from the Smithsonian's newest museum.
		Its purpose was to demonstrate how the museum is a Native place and home to diverse, contemporary Native people from throughout the Americas.
		Several students from the Milwaukee Indian Community School in Milwaukee, the Irving Middle School in Norman, Okla. and the Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C. were on the show, answering questions and participating in activities.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096410733 (350 words)

	Antelope Valley Indian Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Tthe Antelope Valley Indian Museum is a unique and eclectic folk art structure located in northeastern Los Angeles County.
		The museum houses objects created by the American Indian cultures of the western Great Basin, California, and the Southwest.
		Built in the 1920s among towering rock formations in the Mojave desert, the museum is a unit of the California State Department of Parks and Recreation system.
	www.avim.av.org (154 words)

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