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2014-11-21T20:18:29.000Z
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Video Title:
Going Home 16: Closing Remarks and Blessing
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The 1989 National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) opened a new era in relations between Native Americans and museums by giving legal weight to the spiritual and ethical concerns of tribes. To commemorate 25 years of repatriation, the National Museum of the American Indian has convened this symposium to discuss the history of the NMAIA, current repatriation practices at the Smithsonian Institution, and the future of repatriation beyond political and geographical boundaries. In this segment, symposium moderator, Philip Deloria, Professor, University of Michigan and Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, provides the closing remarks of the symposium. Clayton Old Elk, Crow Tribe of Montana, gives the closing blessing. Philip J. Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux) is Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor in the Departments of History and American Culture, and currently serves as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Playing Indian (1998) and Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), along with numerous essays, articles, and reviews dealing with American cultural history, American Indian history, and American environmental history. Deloria is a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, where he chairs the Scholarship and Collections committee and is a longtime member of the Repatriation Committee. Clayton Old Elk, an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe of Montana, serves as a cultural advisor to organizations such as the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He was born and raised on the Crow Indian Reservation and is a member of the Whistling Water Clan. His clan father from the Greasy Mouth clan served on a battle ship in World War II and gave him his Crow name “Fights on Water.” Old Elk is a Health System Specialist with the IHS Office of Resource Access & Partnerships in Maryland. He previously served as a Chief Executive Officer for the IHS Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospital in Montana. His previous experience includes private-sector work in finance and accounting and serving as Executive Director for Natural Resources Development with the Native American Rights Fund in Colorado. The symposium, "Going Home: 25 Years of Repatriation Under the NMAI Act," was webcast and recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 19, 2014.
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19 min 15 sec
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