Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian


DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER: Kevin Gover (Pawnee)


EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Tanya Thrasher (Cherokee Nation)


MANAGING EDITOR: James Ring Adams


ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR: Anne Bolen


CALENDAR EDITOR: Shawn Termin (Lakota)


ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR AND ADVERTISING SALES: David Saunders


ART DIRECTION AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: David Beyer (Cree) Perceptible Inc.


Board of Trustees William R. Lomax (Gitxsan), Chair


Amanda Cobb-Greetham (Chickasaw), Vice Chair


Kimberly Baird (Tsawwassen First Nation), Secretary


danah boyd Lonnie G. Bunch III, ex offi cio Kevin Gover, ex offi cio Barbara Davis Blum Philip J. Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux)


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The Honorable Jeff L. Grubbe (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)


Allison Hicks (Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation) Kathy Hopinkah Hannan (Ho-Chunk) Shari Huhndorf (Yupik) G. Peter Jemison (Seneca)


Colin Kippen (Native Hawaiian)


Pearl Kiyawn Brower (Inupiaq and Chippewa)


The Honorable Richard Luarkie (Pueblo of Laguna)


Elaine Peters (Ak-Chin Indian Community)


The Honorable Greg Sarris (Graton Rancheria)


Gregory A. Smith Loretta A. Tuell (Nez Perce)


Darreld “Deacon” Turner II (Cherokee Nation)


Bob Weis Leslie Wheelock (Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin) Armstrong A. Wiggins (Miskito)


New York Board of Directors


Leslie Wheelock (Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin), Chair Lance E. Lindblom, Vice Chair Ann Silverman (Ojibwe), Vice Chair Andrew Lee (Seneca), Immediate Past Chair Michael Bernstein Barbara H. Block, Emerita Valerie T. Diker Margot P. Ernst John L. Ernst


National Council Geoffrey D. Strommer, Chair, Oregon


Tishmall Turner (Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians), Vice Chair, California


Elizabeth M. Alexander, Virginia Dr. Quincalee Brown, Virginia


The Honorable Stephanie A. Bryan (Poarch Band of Creek Indians), Alabama


David W. Cartwright, New Mexico Vincent R. Castro, Delaware


Keller George (Oneida Indian Nation), ex offi cio, New York


Jeff Goudreau, MD (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Texas


LaDonna Harris (Comanche), New Mexico Jennifer A. Jones, Minnesota The Honorable Jefferson E. Keel (Chickasaw), Oklahoma


Zackeree Sean Kelin (Caddo Nation) and Maria Bianca Garcia Kelin, New Mexico


Stephen J. Friedman Jacqueline Johnson Pata (Tlingit) Bradford R. Keeler (Cherokee) Lauren Koopman Brian C. McK. Henderson (Apache) Valerie Rowe Jane F. Safer Joshua Spear Howard Teich


George W. Levert, Georgia Paul G. Moorehead, District of Columbia Clara Lee Pratte (Navajo Nation), Arizona Robert Redford, Utah Robert W. Roessel (Diné), Arizona


The Honorable Carol Schwartz, District of Columbia


Shelby Settles Harper (Caddo Nation), Maryland V. Heather Sibbison, District of Columbia Joan and Marx Sterne, Virginia


Ernest L. Stevens Jr. (Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin), Wisconsin


Jerry C. Straus, District of Columbia William B. Tiger (Miccosukee), New York Jill Cooper Udall, New Mexico


Leslie A. Wheelock (Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin), District of Columbia


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