Vistas and Dreams 1: Welcome and Introduction
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- Vistas and Dreams 1: Welcome and Introduction
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- "Vistas and Dreams: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Museum of the American Indian" is a special symposium that marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Museum of the American Indian’s predecessor institution, the Museum of the American Indian (MAI), by George Gustav Heye (1874–1957). In this segment, Kevin Gover, Director, National Museum of the American Indian welcomes the audience and speakers to the event and Frederick E. Hoxie, the symposium moderator from the University of Illinois, provides an introduction. KEVIN GOVER (Pawnee) is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and a former professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). He served on the faculty of the university’s Indian Legal Program and was co-executive director of ASU’s American Indian Policy Institute. Before joining the university faculty, Gover served as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1997 to 2000. A presidential appointee, he was responsible for policy and operational oversight of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where he oversaw programs in Indian education, law enforcement, social services, treaty rights, and trust asset management. FREDERICK E. HOXIE (symposium moderator) is Swanlund Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as a consultant both to Indian tribes and government agencies, and his current research focuses on American Indian and indigenous political activism in the United States and beyond. His publications include Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (1995); Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era (2001); The People: A History of Native America (2007), with David Edmunds and Neal Salisbury; Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country (2007), with Jay Nelson; and This Indian Country: American Indian Political Activists and the Place They Made (2012), which won the Western History Association’s Caughey Prize. Hoxie is a founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian. The symposium was recorded at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in the Alexander Hamilton U. S. Custom House in New York City on September 17, 2016.
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