Exploring the Past, Looking Toward the Future

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Exploring the Past, Looking Toward the Future
Two Online Exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
The National Museum of the American Indian opened on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in 2004. It had been in the planning, building, and organizing stages for fifteen years, since 1989, before it was finally completely realized. It is one of the few Smithsonian national United States museums in Washington D.C. that is specifically dedicated to a group of people; in addition it is important to note that this group of people have been subject to hundreds of years of genocide and assimilation by the white Europeans who came to North America and eventually transformed it into the United States, Canada, and Mexico....

.....o make a new history for Native Americans.
Works Cited
“Ancient Mexican Art.” Museum of the American Indian. 28 Feb. 2011 <http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/ancient/english/index.html>.
Brockman, Joshua. “A New Dawn for Museums of Native American Art.” The New York Times 20 Aug. 2005. 28 Feb. 2011 <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/20/arts/design/20nati.html?fta=>.
Johnson, Ken. “Beyond Stereotypes: 21st Century Indian Artists,” The New York Times. 20 June 2008. 28 Feb. 2011 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20remi.html?ref=nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian>.
“Remix: New
Modernities
in a Post Indian World.” Museum of the American Indian. 28 Feb. 2011 <http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/remix/artists.html>.