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Article: The making of Who We Are, now showing at the NMAI Lelawi Theater.(EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT)(National Museum of American Indian)
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
- Author:
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Who We Are is among the exhibitions that premiered in September 2004 during the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian in the U.S. capital. It is a multimedia-formatted film being shown in the distinctive circular Lelawi Theater located on the fourth floor in the museum. "Lelawi" is a Lenape (Delaware) word for "in the middle," an appropriate name for the gathering space, as the film is an introduction for museum visitors to visually tour Native America and her people in the twenty-first century. (1)
This essay will recall my participation as associate producer for Who We Are, provide some context for many of the decisions that were made in ...