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Article: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIAN DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES PLAN TO RETIRE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2006
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The National Museum of the American Indian issued the following news release:
W. Richard West Jr. (Southern Cheyenne), director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian for 17 years, announced his resignation today, effective November 2007.
"I have been privileged to serve as the founding director at the National Museum of the American Indian: a museum that I believe is truly like no other," West said. "One of my most poignant memories was the museum's spectacular opening on the National Mall two years ago, when 25,000 Native Americans and non-Native supporters staged what is believed to be the largest gathering of Native Americans in the nation's capital in modern ...