Inka Road Symposium 14 - Welcome and Brief Summary of Day One
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- Inka Road Symposium 14 - Welcome and Brief Summary of Day One
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- 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, José Barreiro, Exhibition Co-curator and Symposium Moderator, National Museum of the American Indian welcomes the symposium attendees and give a summary of the first day proceedings. José Barreiro (Taíno), PhD, is the assistant director for culture and history research and the director of the Office for Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian. Author of several books, Barreiro’s research focuses on indigeneity revitalization processes and self-determined community development. Barreiro was active in foundational Native American journalism and publishing in the 1970s, and was an early organizer in the founding conferences of American Indigenous peoples’ dialogue at the United Nations. He is co-curator of The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian. 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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