A Museum Of Natives, By Natives, For North America

“When the new National Museum of the American Indian opens [in Washington, D.C.] on Sept. 21 amid a flurry of drumming, chanting, eagle feathers and sweetgrass ceremonies, it will mark the culmination of a debate that began in Canada in the 1980s over who gets to tell the aboriginal story… Most of the museum’s staff boast native ancestry and the story the museum tells is in the first person.”