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When the National Museum was created in 1989, a law governing repatriation was drafted specifically for the museum, the National Museum of the American Indian Act, upon which NAGPRA was modeled. [38] In addition to repatriation, the museum engages in dialogues with tribal communities regarding the appropriate curation of cultural heritage items.
The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903.He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. [2]
Founded in 1944, [40] the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native [41] rights organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded to represent the tribes and resist federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people.
This list of museums in Indiana is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
As part of a legal compromise regarding the Heye Foundation's New York state charter, the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian was also created by the NMAI Act in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City.
[207] [208] The American Indian Community House, which wished to occupy a part of the Custom House, argued against giving the building to the Museum of the American Indian because the museum was run mostly by non-Indians. [206] At the time, the Museum of the American Indian wished to relocate because its Upper Manhattan facility was ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
An American Indian Museum is a museum that focuses on the history, culture and arts of North American native peoples. Specifically, it may refer to: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. George Gustav Heye Center, or the National Museum of the American Indian–New York, New York City; Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New ...