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Symposia
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2019-06-04T20:30:42.000Z
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Video Title:
Taíno Symposium – Welcome by Eduardo Díaz
Description:
The National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center presented Taíno: A Symposium in Conversation with the Movement on September 8, 2018 to celebrate the exhibition Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean. Experts representing Indigenous studies, genetic science, anthropology, linguistics, and other academic disciplines examined exhibition themes in dialogue with Taíno/Indigenous Caribbean community leaders and cultural workers. In this segment, Eduardo Díaz, Director, Smithsonian Latino Center, welcomes the audience to the Smithsonian and the symposium. Eduardo Díaz, director of the Smithsonian Latino Center, is a 36-year veteran of the Latino cultural field. The Smithsonian Latino Center supports research, exhibitions, public and educational programs, web content, collections and collections about the Latino experience in the United States. He is the former executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, and served as San Antonio’s director of Cultural Affairs. Díaz has a law degree from the University of California at Davis and bachelor’s in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University. This symposium was webcast and recorded live in at the National Museum of the American Indian New York, George Gustav Heye Center on September 8, 2018.
Video Duration:
6 min 53 sec
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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
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Education  Search this
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Native Americans;American Indians  Search this
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