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Article: A pilgrimage to the Mall; American Indian museum historical, not trendy.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2004
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Byline: Suzanne Fields, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Only the bravest among us in Washington, where the "Redskins" are loved for their football prowess and scorned for their name, would be bold enough to put a museum on the Mall to honor the first Americans and name it for the American Indian instead of the currently fashionable "Native American."
The founders, creators, backers and tribal participants of the National Museum of the American Indian went with the historical rather than the trendy. They did something else remarkable. They enabled the Indians to speak for themselves, rather than impose the traditional anthropological interpretation of the white man. ...