 National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., viewed from the northeast
 Interior view looking down toward the entrance.
 National Museum of the American Indian seen from the North. 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. Operating under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of the American Indian has three facilities: the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which opened on September 21, 2004; The George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent museum in New York City; and the Cultural Resources Center, a research and collections facility in Suitland, Maryland. Taken by biggins and released into the public domain. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1990 KB) Interior of the National Museum of the American Indian, from the second floor looking down into the first floor. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1990 KB) Interior of the National Museum of the American Indian, from the second floor looking down into the first floor. ...
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The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ...
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September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The George Gustav Heye Center is the branch in New York City of the National Museum of the American Indian, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. ...
New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...
Suitland-Silver Hill is a census-designated place located in Prince Georges County, Maryland. ...
Locations
National Mall The National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall opened in September 2004. 15 years in the making, it is the first national museum in the country dedicated exclusively to Native Americans. The five-story, 250,000-square-foot, curvilinear building is clad in a golden-colored Kasota limestone that is designed to evoke natural rock formations that have been shaped by wind and water over thousands of years. The museum is set in a 4.25-acre site and is surrounded by simulated wetlands. The museum’s east-facing entrance, its prism window and its 120-foot-high space for contemporary Native performances are direct results of extensive consultations with Native peoples. Similar to the Heye Center in Lower Manhattan, the museum offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs, public programs and living culture presentations throughout the year. Facing east across the Mall with ones back towards the Lincoln Memorial. ...
Kasota limestone at night. ...
A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ...
The museum’s architect and project designer is the Canadian Douglas Cardinal (Blackfoot); its design architects are GBQC Architects of Philadelphia and architect Johnpaul Jones (Cherokee/Choctaw). Disagreements during construction led to Cardinal being removed from the project, but the building retains his original design intent, and his continued input enabled its completion. An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...
National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. - Cardinal was forced off of the project before completion and appears not to be content with the finished design. ...
Chief Aatsista-Mahkan Mehkskeme-Sukahs, Blackfoot chief (left) (Karl Bodmer) The Blackfoot Confederacy is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. ...
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The museum’s project architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and SmithGroup of Washington, D.C., in association with Lou Weller (Caddo), 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. The landscape architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and EDAW Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia. City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area - Total - Land - Water - % water 369. ...
The Caddo are a nation, or group of tribes, of Southeastern Native Americans who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, Western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma. ...
James Polshek (born 1930) is an American architect currently residing in New York. ...
New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...
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The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States call themselves the Diné (pronounced ), which roughly means the people. They speak the Navajo language, and many are members of the Navajo Nation, an independent government structure which manages the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners area of the United...
The Oneida (Onyotaa:ka or Onayotekaono, meaning the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone) are a Native American/First Nations people and comprise one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. ...
Location in Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia Founded 1718 Government - Mayor William D. Euille Area - City 15. ...
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. Donna House, the Navajo and Oneida botanist who supervised the landscaping, has said, "The landscape flows into the building, and the environment is who we are. We are the trees, we are the rocks, we are the water. And that had to be part of the museum." This theme of organic flow is reflected by the interior of the museum, whose walls are mostly curving surfaces, with almost no sharp corners.
George Gustav Heye Center The Museum’s George Gustav Heye Center occupies two floors of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Lower Manhattan. The Beaux Arts-style building, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, was completed in 1907. It is a designated National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark. The center’s exhibition and public access areas total about 20,000- square feet. The Heye Center offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs and living culture presentations throughout the year. The central rotunda of the Alexander Hamilton Custom House The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House (originally U.S. Custom House) is a building in New York City, built 1902 - 1907 by the federal government to house the duty collection operations for the port of New York. ...
Woolworth Building, looking south along Broadway Lower Manhattan, from the Brooklyn Bridge, 2005 Rigid airship the USS Akron over Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. ...
Woolworth Building (New York City), was the worlds tallest building at the time it was built, in 1909. ...
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Cultural Resources Center In Suitland, Maryland, the National Museum of the American Indian operates the Cultural Resources Center, an enormous, nautilus-shaped building which houses both the collection and photo archives. Suitland-Silver Hill is a census-designated place located in Prince Georges County, Maryland. ...
Collection The National Museum of the American Indian is home to the collection of the former Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. The collection includes more than 800,000 objects, as well as a photographic archive of 125,000 images. The collection, which became part of the Smithsonian in June 1990, was assembled throughout a 54-year period, beginning in 1903 by George Gustav Heye (1874-1957), who traveled throughout North and South America accumulating Native objects. Heye was the founder of New York’s Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation from its beginning until his death in 1957. The Heye Foundation’s Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in New York City in 1922. George Gustav Heye (1874-1957) was a collector of Native American artifacts. ...
The collection is not subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, but the museum has adopted procedures that are modeled on this act.[1] The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (or NAGPRA) is a United States federal law passed in 1990 requiring that Native Americans cultural items be returned to their respective peoples if and when they have been excavated, and allows archeological teams a short time for analysis before the remains...
Museum director W. Richard West Jr., a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne, is founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Before becoming director of the National Museum of the American Indian in 1990, West was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, and, subsequently, in the Indian-owned Albuquerque law firm of Gover, Stetson, Williams & West, P.C. He served as General Counsel and Special Counsel to numerous tribes and organizations. W. Richard West, Jr. ...
The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. ...
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Live Earth Concert On Friday, July 6 2007, Al Gore announced an all-day concert would be held on the National Mall at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the global Live Earth 2007 series of concerts. Gore told the Associated Press at the time of the announcement that "Global warming naysayers in the political world have not been able to have their way, because this will - despite their best efforts - be held on the Mall".
Originally a parallel event/own concert 'Mother Earth' on 7/7/07 had been scheduled at the premises of the venue of the Museum at the last minute this became one of the 'official' locations for the real Live Earth-event to be broadcast worldwide. From this stage Al Gore thanked therefore the 'Native Americans' for their co-operation and addressed the world. Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ...
Live Earth was a series of worldwide concerts held on July 7, 2007 (07/07/07) intended to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change and encourage people to live more environmentally friendly lifestyles. ...
The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...
Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. ...
Live Earth was a series of worldwide concerts held on July 7, 2007 (07/07/07) intended to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change and encourage people to live more environmentally friendly lifestyles. ...
Earlier in 2007, Republican leaders in the United States Senate refused Gore's request to host one of the concerts on the Capitol grounds facing the Washington Monument. The denial came after Gore testified before House and Senate panels in March about what he calls a "true planetary emergency". Republican senator James Inhofe, who has called global warming a hoax, led the move to squash the Capitol concert. A spokesman said at the time that Inhofe objected to using the Capitol for events that are partisan or politically controversial. Inhofe said the "Gore's concert is both." Gore, a Democrat, replied stating that global warming "is not a political issue; it's a moral issue. Nevertheless, some of the issues will have to be worked out in the political system. [2] The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ...
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James Mountain Inhofe, usually known as Jim Inhofe (born November 17, 1934) is an American politician from Oklahoma. ...
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Based in Denver, CO, The American Indian College Fund provides scholarships and other support for the nations 32 tribal colleges and universities. ...
Notes - ^ NMNH - Repatriation Office - Frequently Asked Questions. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved on 2007-05-04.
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/06/arts/NA-A-E-MUS-Live-Earth.php
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
References - Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Updated on 2005-09-22.
- Francis Hayden, "By the People", Smithsonian, September 2004, pp. 50–57.
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ...
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