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2015-07-15T18:45:43.000Z
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Video Title:
Inka Road Symposium 02 - Welcome
Description:
This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire, with a fascinating look at the material, political, economic, and religious structures that integrated more than one hundred Native nations and millions of people in the powerful Andean Empire known as the Tawantinsuyu. In this segment, Kevin Gover, Director, National Museum of the American Indian, welcomes the symposium participants and attendees to the museum. Kevin Gover (Pawnee) is director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. A former professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, affiliate professor in the university’s American Indian Studies Program, and co-executive director of its American Indian Policy Institute, Gover received his bachelor’s degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University and his law degree from the University of New Mexico. Before joining the university faculty, Gover served as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1997 to 2000. A presidential appointee, he was responsible for policy and operational oversight of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where he oversaw programs in Indian education, law enforcement, social services, treaty rights, and trust asset management. The symposium was recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 25-26, 2015.
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6 min 18 sec
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