Native Peoples' Gifts to Humanity Celebrated in Museum Opening
Environment News Service, September, 2004 by staff
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — Thousands of American Indians from 515 native nations throughout the Americas took part in the Native Nations Procession on the National Mall Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.
The first national museum in the country to be dedicated to Native Americans, it is the first to present all exhibitions from a native viewpoint. American Indians played a key role in the design of the building and landscape near the U.S. Capitol, as well as the exhibitions and public programs.
The flowing, curvilinear museum building clad in golden-toned Kasota dolomitic limestone from Minnesota, suggests a sculptural form carved over time by wind and water. (Photo courtesy National Museum of the...
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