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STUDENTS & ALUMNI April 27, 2010 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm  IAIA Campus, LTC Auditorium, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508 (Click here for a map)Join us for an intimate conversation about the struggles, controversies and triumphs concerning Native American representation in the media, popular culture, museums and the law with three of the most influential Native American leaders of our day Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee), Dr. N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) and W. Richard West, Esq. (Cheyenne). Harjo, Momaday and West will reflect on the 20th Anniversary of the National Museum of the American Indian and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The presentation includes a discussion on their combined, multi-year efforts to achieve the NMAI and repatriation laws in 1989 and 1990. There will be time at the end of the presentation for audience Q&A, followed by a reception with light refreshments. Suzan Shown Harjo is a poet, writer, curator and advocate. She has helped Native peoples protect many sacred places and recover more than one million acres of land. The first Vine Deloria, Jr. Distinguished Indigenous Scholar (University of Arizona, 2008), she also was the first Native woman to receive the Montgomery Fellowship (Dartmouth College, 1992) and was awarded unprecedented back-to-back fellowships as a 2004 School of Advanced Research Scholar and Poetry Fellow. A Founding Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, she began work in 1967 that led to the Smithsonian's National Musuem of the American Indian (NMAI), to repatriation laws and to museum reform. She also directed the NMAI Native Language Project and hosted the NMAI Native Writers Series for its first three seasons. N. Scott Momaday is recognized as one of the premier writers in the United States. In 1969, his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction, and he became the first Native American to receive that award. Momaday is known primarily for his novels and poetry collections that communicate the oral legends of the Kiowa people. Momaday founded and operates the Buffalo Trust, a nonprofit organization working to preserve native cultures. W. Richard West, Jr., is founding director (1990-2007) and director emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. West currently serves as Vice President of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). West served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the American Association of Museums (1998-2000) and as Immediate Past Chair (2000-2002). From 1992-1995 and 1997-1998, he served as a member of the Association’s Board of Directors and in 1995-1996 as its Vice-Chair. He was a member of the Joint Board task force on International Programs, American Association of Museums and US National Committee of ICOM (2008-2009) and of the Ethics Taskforce on Cultural Property, American Association of Museums and US National Committee of ICOM (2006-2008). As a practicing attorney and preceding his museum directorship, West’s legal career spanned nearly 20 years, primarily in the areas of American Indian and corporate law. This event is hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Free and open to the public! Please contact Guin White at 505.428.5909 or gwhite@iaia.edu for more information.
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