The National Museum of the American Indian may be an architectural and societal triumph, but the man who designed it is so upset that he isn’t even attending the opening. “[Architect Douglas] Cardinal was picked, along with the firm of GBQC in Philadelphia, to design it in 1993 but the museum’s board wanted him to work under James Stuart Polshek, former dean of the Columbia School of Architecture, who is well connected in Washington… ‘Polshek wanted me to be Tonto to his Lone Ranger — his sidekick,’ says Cardinal. ‘I told them I wouldn’t work with that individual. He called me racist.'”