The National Museum of the American Indian.

This article highlights the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. They journeyed to participate in the largest gathering of Native peoples in modern history, to celebrate a symbolic moment in the long, long histories of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and to honor their own survivance. After all, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is the museum, the paragon of all that museums have meant to Native peoples and to those people who have collected, named, studied, and displayed Native Americans and their cultures.