National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA; 1989)

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Indian Act

Religion as Collective Right

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-223
Author(s):  
Michael D. McNally
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Federal Indian Law ◽  
Indian Act ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Indian Law

This chapter discusses repatriation law and a cluster of legal cases involving possession of ceremonial eagle feathers, where courts have consistently affirmed the collective contours of Native religions. Courts have upheld an exemption to the criminal penalties for feather possession tailored to members of federally recognized tribes against legal challenges by individual practitioners of Native religions who are not members of those tribes. These cases illustrate well the difficulties and the possibilities of religion as a category encompassing collective Native traditions. The coalition that persuaded Congress in 1994 to pass the Peyote Amendment to AIRFA was successful in part because it was largely the same circle of advocates, lawyers, tribal spiritual and political leaders, and allies who had recently won congressional passage of two repatriation statutes: the National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAI) in 1989 and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) the next year. The chapter thus tells the story of Native-led efforts to secure these two laws and offers an interpretation of them not as religious freedom laws, but primarily as additions to federal Indian law that encompass religious and cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Duas leis, um museu

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-256
Author(s):  
Rebeca Ribeiro Bombonato
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Indian Act

A legislação patrimonial norte-americana possui diversas especificidades. Uma lei de grande importância e relevância no cenário nacional tratou, em 1989, da instalação de um museu voltado para a divulgação e pesquisa da história de comunidades nativo-americanas, o National Museum of the American Indian, que faz parte da Smithsonian Institution. A sua lei de criação também estabelece os critérios para a repatriação de remanescentes humanos e objetos funerários presentes nas coleções adquiridas para a formação do museu. Com base no NMAIA (National Museum of the American Indian Act), uma segunda lei, foi aprovada no ano seguinte, o NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). De abrangência nacional, o NAGPRA tornou-se uma das legislações patrimoniais mais importantes e conhecidas do mundo.

scholarly journals Identifying VOCs in exhibition cases and efflorescence on museum objects exhibited at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian-New York

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Alvarez-Martin ◽  
John George ◽  
Emily Kaplan ◽  
Lauren Osmond ◽  
Leah Bright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Structural Adhesive ◽  
Speed Of Analysis

AbstractTwo mass spectrometry (MS) methods, solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography (SPME–GC–MS) and direct analysis in real time (DART-MS), have been explored to investigate widespread efflorescence observed on exhibited objects at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York (NMAI-NY). Both methods show great potential, in terms of speed of analysis and level of information, for identifying the organic component of the efflorescence as 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinol (TMP-ol) emitted by the structural adhesive (Terostat MS 937) used for exhibit case construction. The utility of DART-MS was proven by detecting the presence of TMP-ol in construction materials in a fraction of the time and effort required for SPME–GC–MS analysis. In parallel, an unobtrusive SPME sampling strategy was used to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) accumulated in the exhibition cases. This sampling technique can be performed by collections and conservation staff at the museum and shipped to an off-site laboratory for analysis. This broadens the accessibility of MS techniques to museums without access to instrumentation or in-house analysis capabilities.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian: An International Institution of Living Cultures

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS E. EVELYN
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Art History ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
National Museum ◽  
International Institution ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Public Programming ◽  
Special Responsibility

The mission of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian is to affirm to Native communities and the non-Native public the historical and contemporary culture and cultural achievements of the Natives of the Western Hemisphere by advancing, in consultations, collaboration and cooperation with them, a knowledge and understanding of their cultures, including art, history and language, and by recognizing the Museum's special responsibility, through innovative public programming, research and collections, to protect, support and enhance the development, maintenance and perpetuation of Native culture and community. Adopted 1990.

scholarly journals Are Indians in America's DNA?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Marina Tyquiengco ◽  
Monika Siebert
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
National Museum ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Indigenous Art

A conversation between Dr. Monika Siebert and Marina Tyquiengco on:   Americans National Museum of the American Indian January 18, 2018–2022 Washington, D.C.   Monika Siebert, Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015.

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