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...Mashantucket Pequots are a tiny tribe of 320 people and untold millions of dollars -- earned at their reservation casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, above. Last week the Smithsonian Museum received $10 million from the Pequots...
...video and its setting make up just one of dozens of striking exhibits in perhaps the smartest display of Native American culture ever assembled: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which opens this week in New York City. The museum is housed in the Beaux Arts splendor of the 1907 Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which has been elegantly restored and renovated by Ehrenkrantz & Eckstut Architects. Its permanent collection boasts the million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much...
...fact, right now is a fine moment for Native American culture, both high and pop. The museum's opening is a prelude to the much larger, $60 million | Smithsonian Indian edifice to be opened in Washington in 2001. And it coincides with the vast, vastly earnest, 6-hr. recasting of Indian history on Ted Turner's TBS (the sound track, featuring Mohawk singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson, forms the basis of a critically acclaimed CD). In Buena Vista, California, Disney artists are shaping the studio's next big-ticket animated film: Pocohantas...
...anger of World War II veterans and others who knew what they were talking about descended upon the Smithsonian. The curators produced a revised script earlier in the summer and last week a third try, which finally puts Hiroshima and Nagasaki into the historical context of Japanese aggression and its many victims and of a long and vastly destructive...
...Last week, a couple of days after the Smithsonian released its third Hiroshima script, Elie Wiesel was speaking in Washington at the new U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was addressing 120 teenagers from five Middle Eastern countries who had spent a summer session at a Maine camp in the "Seeds of Peace" program. A Palestinian boy in the program minimized the Jews' Holocaust under the Nazis and said bitterly, thinking of his own people, "There are many holocausts...