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1989: Congress calls for national museum to celebrate American Indians

Congress creates the National Museum of the American Indian in the Smithsonian Institution. W. Richard West Jr., a Southern Cheyenne attorney, is named director in 1990.

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Federal-Tribal Relations
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Arctic, California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Hawai‘i, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, Subarctic