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	ICT [2004/01/02] Whitman at National Museum of the American Indian
		Whitman at National Museum of the American Indian
		ICT [2004/01/02] Whitman at National Museum of the American Indian
		NEW YORK - An exhibition of photographs by Richard Ray Whitman is currently being shown through Feb. 1 at National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1076353465 (942 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is an institution of living cultures dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere; the museum was established in 1989 through an Act of Congress.
		Landscape architects are Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd.of Seattle and EDAW Inc., landscape architects in Alexandria, Va. In general, American Indians have filled the leadership roles in the design and operation of the museum and have aimed at creating a different atmosphere and experience from museums of European and Euro-American culture.
		The museum’s project architects are Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and SmithGroup of Washington, D.C., in association with Lou Weller (Caddo) and the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects of New York City; Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi) and Donna House (Navajo/Oneida) also served as design consultants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Museum_of_the_American_Indian (785 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian - Smithsonian Institution :washingtonpost.com
		The museum's history dates to discussions that began in 1980 about the fate of a vast collection of Indian materials, the bulk of which was sitting in a cramped warehouse in an out-of-the-way area of the Bronx.
		Perched between the Capitol and the National Air and Space Museum, NMAI is the newest in the Smithsonian Institution's system of 18 museums and the National Zoo.
		The museum deliberately rejected interpreting its materials from the anthropological point of view that is the basis of most museums' treatment of Native Americans.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=831249&lat=38.8880000&lon=-77.0162000&displaySearchTerm=&displaySearchLocation=&categories=Museums (1917 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian on Encyclopedia.com
		NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN [National Museum of the American Indian] institution devoted to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the culture of the indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere, a division of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Workers are shown during construction of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on Wednesday, April 30, 2003, in Washington, DC.
		WASHINGTON, DC-- The National Museum of the American Indian is shown on Thursday, September 16, 2004.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/N/NatlM1usA1I1.asp (1398 words)

	UCR News: UC Riverside Historian Celebrates National Museum of the American Indian
		UC Riverside Historian Celebrates National Museum of the American Indian
		Located between the Air and Space Museum and the nation’s Capitol, this will be the last of the Smithsonian museums dotted along the National Mall in Washington D.C. “This is recognition, finally, of the importance of Native American history,” Trafzer said.
		Other institutional resources include the Rupert Costo Library of American Indian History, one of the largest collections of research materials relating to Native Americans in the nation, and the proposed Center for California Native Nations.
	www.newsroom.ucr.edu /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=877&type=email (682 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian Opens in Washington, D.C.
		On September 21, 2004, the National Museum of the American Indian, the 18th Smithsonian museum, opened to the public.
		At the National Museum of American History, the author of every label is identified, informing visitors that they are reading the interpretation of an individual curator or community member and letting them draw their own conclusions about the validity of that viewpoint.
		Native Americans traveled from throughout the Americas for the opening ceremonies, which featured a procession on the National Mall by 25,000 representatives of 500 different tribes and a week-long festival of music, dance, and storytelling.
	www.historians.org /Perspectives/Issues/2004/0411/0411new2.cfm (624 words)

	eG Forums -> National Museum of the American Indian
		After wandering around the Air and Space Museum looking at rockets and all the cool Lego displays, we headed across the street to the Mitsitam Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian for lunch.
		In addition to the museum opening, the First Americans Festival is set up out on the mall offering craft demonstrations, performances, and of course food.
		Back when the museum was in the planning stages there was a good deal of thought put into the eating options in the museum.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=51847 (1553 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "National Museum of the American Indian Hosts..."
		National Museum of the American Indian Hosts National Powwow at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. To: National and Assignment Desks
		(Southern Cheyenne.) "The National Powwow is an example of the National Museum of the American Indian's commitment to presenting public programs that reflect the diversity and social traditions of contemporary Native cultures."
		"At our Inaugural Powwow in 2002, more than 20,000 people gathered on the National Mall to experience the extraordinary dancing, singing, artistry, foods and traditions of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere," said founding museum director W. Richard West Jr.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=51591 (631 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian - Review at ArBITAT Views
		American Indians are the indigenous peoples of North and South America who were driven back and victimized by European settlers for generations.
		To Americans today, the past treatment of its native population is one of those things that can still evoke some level of shame, although one (like slavery, segregation, the Japanese internment, etc.) that can easily be blamed on the circumstances and the past without any fear of retribution.
		The museum uses artifacts, films, demonstrations and text descriptions to explain both what life was like before the Europeans and after, a world of broken treaties and displacement.
	www.arbitat.com /views/articles/A007.htm (718 words)

	Native mythologies by Peter Pettus
		Among these new additions, the National Museum of the American Indian (
		The American Indian, it would appear, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, is unlike any other homo sapiens on the planet in terms of the purity of his spirit, the natural harmony of his life, his cooperative and peaceful demeanor, the vibrancy of his art, his.
		These were also real aspects of the American Indian experience, but they have been airbrushed away to present a sanctified and unreal image.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/sum05/pettus.htm (1009 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian, The George Gustav Heye Center, New York City
		The National Museum of the American Indian, one of the most beautiful museums in New York City, is located in the old Customs House across the street from Battery Park.
		"The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
		National Museum of the American Indian, The George Gustav Heye Center, New York City
	www.ny.com /museums/national.museum.of.the.american.indian.html (282 words)

	Ettractions.com - National Museum of the American Indian
		The National Museum of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Ettractions.com - National Museum of the American Indian
		It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
	www.ettractions.com /ettractions/att/18056.asp (188 words)

	Aboriginal Planet - National Museum of the American Indian opens
		Many American Indians see the new museum as being a continuation of that cultural appropriation.
		The museum is dedicated to being different from traditional museum exhibits that display Indigenous peoples as quaint relics of the past, he said.
		The Washington Monument is a couple of blocks south of the museum, the White House a few blocks away to the southwest.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /aboriginalplanet/archives/november2004/art1_main-en.asp?prn=1 (1446 words)

	About Treasures of The National Museum of The American Indian Abbeville Press
		is the Director of the National Museum of the American Indian.
		Treasures of The National Museum of The American Indian
		Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the Smithsonian’s National Musuem of the American Indian (NMAI) is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and the arts of Native Americans.
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	AIArchitect, September 27, 2004 - National Museum of the American Indian Takes Rightful Place on the Mall
		The National Museum of the American Indian offers a glimpse of the complexities of native cultures.
		The National Museum of the American Indian, which opened September 21, pays tribute to cultures, though ancient, that are vibrantly alive today.
		The National Museum of the American Indian is one of those special buildings.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek04/tw0924/0924nmai.htm (1359 words)

	The National Museum of Ben Nighthorse Campbell. By Timothy Noah
		The National Museum of the American Indian is backed into this corner by its mission of "survivance," a term (invented 10 years ago by an Anishinaabe scholar named Gerald Vizenor) that elevates the survival of ancient culture from the realm of fact to that of dogma.
		Photographs of: exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian by Robert C. Lautman; Potomac, National Museum of the American Indian, by R.A. Whiteside, National Museum of the American Indian; dome on the National Mall © 2004 Maxwell MacKenzie.
		The museum's curators regard the very notion of a Native American cultural heritage as anathema because it clashes with the museum's boosterish message that Native American culture is as vibrant today as it ever was.
	www.slate.com /id/2107140 (1521 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian in The NYC Insider: an Insider's Guide to New York City
		And since a visit to this museum does not consume the entire day (unlike visits to many other museums in New York City), the National Museum of the American Indian is a great place for all of us with busy schedules.
		The collection of the NMAI was originally housed in New York City's Museum of the American Indian on 155th Street and Broadway.
		One of the most interesting exhibits in the museum is called "All Roads are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture." The artifacts displayed were chosen by 23 Native Americans from all over the Western Hemisphere.
	www.theinsider.com /nyc/museums/1natmus.htm (777 words)

	United States Customs House
		Alterations for the National Museum of the American Indian, 1994.
		(National Museum of the American Indian / U.S. Bankruptcy Court)
		The Museum of the American Indian has infilled much of these spaces since its installation.
	www.preserve.org /wtc/us_customs_house.htm (203 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Indian culture and history in National Museum of the American Indian
		Indian culture and history in National Museum of the American Indian The newly opened National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is what its director likes to call "different." Unlike past museums set up by outsiders, this showplace is directed, curated, and staffed largely by native Americans More details...
		In fact, the $219 million museum, home to one of the largest and most diverse collections of Indian art and artifacts in the world, is an institution about, by, and for Indians, and one in which its founders say they will define themselves.
		On permanent exhibit at the museum are nearly 8,000 artifacts culled from 24 tribes and representing 10,000 years from the pre-Columbian era through the beginning of the 20th century, informs CSMonitor.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/09/23/56228.html (1633 words)

	Zeek Tribal Lessons: A Jewish Perspective on the National Museum of the American Indian
		Even the architecture suggests this: The flowing lines of the massive building--next to the National Botanical Gardens and roughly at the foot of the U.S. Capitol--contrast sharply with the rigid, classical lines of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the historical home on the Mall of artifacts related to Native American cultures.
		Bereft of their own voice, Native Americans have had to acquiesce to the representations of them in school textbooks and museums like the NMNH, where they are mute objects of taxonomies rather than living subjects in possession of their own perspectives.
		The Indians themselves were prostrate before the government-sanctioned taxonomies: to this day it is the United States government that defines each tribe and determines who belongs to them, and the NMAI must include the word “Indian” in its title because it matches the language of the relevant federal legislation.
	www.zeek.net /art_0505.shtml (962 words)

	Museum of American Indian Tries to Balance Modernity, Tradition
		The five-level National Museum of the American Indian, which opens to the public today in Washington, D.C., is shaped in undulating layers of beautifully arrayed blond stone, like massive geological striations.
		Indians proudly show off their accomplishments in the modern economy -- from the skyscraper steel-working talents of Mohawk construction workers to ubiquitous tribal casino gambling.
		Native Americans fought for a museum on the Mall because it denotes importance and recognition, permitting them to tell their own stories at last.
	www.jsrussellwriter.com /nmai.html (883 words)

	NPR : Smithsonian American Indian Museum Debuts
		Rick West, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
		NPR's Neal Conan and guests broadcast live from the National Museum of the American Indian.
		On the landscaping project design team for the National Museum of the American Indian.
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	Fast Facts: National Museum of the American Indian
		Inspired in part by rock formations, the new National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., is wrapped in rippling bands of rough limestone.
		With a curvaceous form clad in rough-hewn limestone and embraced by a riot of natural landscapes, the new National Museum of the American Indian is a striking addition to the U.S. National Mall (see museum photos).
		While all dues support National Geographic's mission of expanding geographic knowledge, 90 percent is designated for the magazine subscription, and no portion should be considered a charitable contribution.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/09/0914_040913_indian_museum_information.html (559 words)

	IgoUgo: Washington, D.C. Attractions, Washington, D.C. Festivals, Things To Do In Washington, D.C.
		The National Museum of the American Indian is the newest addition to the Smithsonian Institute.
		National Museum of the American Indian, by Emily Marie, Not Recommended...
		Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on National Museum of the American Indian - Washington, DC at Epinions.com
		In this case, it was the National Museum of the American Indian.
		Entry into the museum is through double doors of translucent glass embossed with pictographs from various Native cultures.
		Thus the museum is built of a warm golden stone that sparkles in the sunlight like the adobe of a Southwestern pueblo.
	www.epinions.com /content_185303207556 (2054 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Native American Resources
		Exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian
		Publications from the National Museum of the American Indian
		Native American Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmai/start.htm (59 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Architect helped create a place for Indians to share their stories
		The fact that Indian people have been involved in every aspect of the museum's creation and will comprise 75 percent of the museum staff is what makes the National Museum of the American Indian so special, Jones said.
		Mainstream museums often represent American Indians as relics of some distant past and display bones and artifacts commonly acquired through theft and the looting of graves.
		1999: The National Museum's Cultural Resource Center — the main storage facility for the bulk of the museum's 4 million-object collection — opened in Suitland, Md. Seattle architect Johnpaul Jones was involved in the design and construction of the center and research facility.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002041637_jonesprofile21m.html (2114 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian Will Open September 21
		The newly completed National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), scheduled to open on September 21, is a bold curvilinear structure evoking the windswept mesas of the southwestern United States.
		NMAI is the first national museum in the United States to be dedicated exclusively to Native Americans, "and the first to present all exhibitions from a Native viewpoint," curators explain.
		Established in 1989 by an Act of Congress, the new museum "is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere," according to the Smithsonian Institution.
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	Native Americans Drawn to the Mall (washingtonpost.com)
		Native Americans from across the country are arriving in the nation's capital to celebrate today's opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.
		Some 28,000 Indians will form a procession to mark the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.
		After 15 years of preparation, the museum's opening on the Mall is laden with soaring historic significance for Native Americans, who have long struggled for national recognition.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A36832-2004Sep20.html (853 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian Hides Genocide
		Americas museums have always been a prime purveyor of the big lies of American history, now the largest and worst is given an army of non-Indian historians, anthros, romance writers and a couple of Indian scouts, to define us to the world.
		Judging by the indian museums I've seen, I guess only indians are permitted to be graverobbers of their indian ancestors.
		They want to believe that all Indian tribes were savage/brutal/etc. but deep down, they know a lot of tribes tried to live in peace with "the white man", and were screwed out of their homes, and in the case of the Cherokees and many others, forced to relocate to Oklahoma from the southeast.
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