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National Museum of the American Indian Opens
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The largest gathering in Washington, D.C. history of Native peoples from across the Americas assembled September 21 on the National Mall to witness the grand opening of the Smithsonain Institution\'s National Museum of the American Indian (see cover story, Sep/Oct 2004 issue). Beneath a blue sky and bright sunlight reflecting off the nearby U.S. Capitol...
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NMAI Opens at Long Last
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 As the golden sun rises over the U.S. Capitol, its first rays strike the gentle slope of the National Museum of the American Indian's shallow dome. It then illuminates the graceful curve of an extreme cantilever sheltering the outdoor welcoming area. This fluid, curvilinear building, reminiscent of a Western mesa, is not only golden by reflection, but intrinsically, as the rough-hewn Kasota stone retains its warm amber hue after the sun has passed. Click on "Full Story" to view entire Table of Contents.
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Rez Biz: Growing Native Economies
By Rob McDonald
| Published 11/1/2003
| Science & Technology , Business , Non Profits , Daniel Gibson , November/December , S'Klallam , Dogrib , Inupiaq , Colville , Kumeyaay , Zuni , Yaqui , Wintu , Sioux , Hochunk , Mashantucket Pequot , Potawatomi , Oneida , Caddo , Choctaw , Chippewa
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the recent relative economic success of casino gambling on some Indian
reservations throughout America, Indian Country and Native individuals
generally remain low on the nation\'s economic ladder...
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Native Scientists Taking Off
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Native Americans are renowned as great artists. Their history as proud and courageous warriors is well known. And they are with equal measures of romanticism and reality revered as mystics exploring the edges of human consciousness and being. But today, laboring in obscurity, they are also electrical, aeronautical, software and materials engineers, research biologists, oil geologists, hydrologists, doctors of medicine, inventors and even astronauts.
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Lloyd Kiva New
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 Lloyd Kiva New’s artistic vision and pragmatic approach set the course for many renowned cultural institutions, including the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, the Heard Museum of Phoenix, the Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Historic Center in Cody, Wyoming, and the soon-to-be-opened National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
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