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2014-11-21T20:18:28.000Z
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Going Home 02: W. Richard West Keynote Delivered by Kevin Gover
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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, the current Director of the National Museum of the American Indian delvers the symposium keynote address, authored by the first Director of the museum, W. Richard West, who was unable to give the speech due to illness. W. Richard West Jr., a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation of Oklahoma and a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Autry National Center of the American West. West has devoted his professional life and much of his personal life to working in the national and international museum communities, and with American Indians on cultural, educational, legal, and governmental issues. West was the Founding Director and Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, where he served as Director from 1990–2007. He was Interim Director of The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., a specialty arts institution with internationally renowned textiles collections, during 2012. Before his museum career, West practiced law at the Indian-owned Albuquerque, New Mexico, law firm of Gover, Stetson, Williams & West, P.C. (1988–90). (see Kevin Gover's bio in segment 06 of the symposium) 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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28 min 5 sec
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