With Native American Art, Using Museum Display to Transcend Stereotypes

“Everyone who visits a museum display about American Indians ‘wants to see feathers, tepees and horses,’ Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indian, lamented recently in his Washington office. But new installations at NMAI’s New York facility, as well as at the Denver Art Museum and Brooklyn Museum, are out to prove, in Mr. Gover’s words, that ‘Indians are not what you think they are’.”