Negotiated in 1835 by a small group of Cherokee citizens without legal standing, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee nation and their elected government, the Treaty of New Echota was used by ...

Collection of seventeen essays addresses the issues raised by the establishment of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in the 1980s, from the George Gustav Heye Collection ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...

The American Indian Exposition in Anadarko has long boasted it’s the first and only all-Indigenous operated cultural event of its kind. The event has evolved over nine decades and continues its run ...

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian ...

As museums across the country face pressures to scale back a purported “overemphasis” on difficult subjects like slavery, experts warn such moves could diminish American exceptionalism and limit ...