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Southern Journeys NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERICAN INDIANSPRING 2017 SoutherN JourNeYS AN eco-tourISt IN ecuADor LessoNS from tIbeS GuArANI DoNAtIoN + theo boSt N MarAthoN: AN INDIAN trADItIoN heYe’S VISIoN At oNe huNDreD HONORING OUR NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS MEMORIAL Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian AmericanIndian.si.edu/NNAVM Sioux two-hide dress, ca. 1910. 2/5800 HONORING OUR NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS MEMORIAL Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian AmericanIndian.si.edu/NNAVM Diné (Navajo) rug or wall hanging. 23/2775 Be Part of a Historic Moment Native Americans have participated in every major U.S. military encounter from the Revolutionary War through today’s conflicts in the Middle East, yet they remain unrecognized by any prominent landmark in our nation’s capital. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will create that landmark: the National Native American Veterans Memorial. The anticipated dedication of this tribute to Native heroes will be on Veterans Day 2020. “We invite you to participate in this historic moment— for our country, for veterans, and for the Native American communities whose loyalty and passion have helped make America what it is today.” —Kevin Gover, Director National Museum of the American Indian The National Museum of the American Indian is depending on your support to CREDITS honor and recognize these Native American veterans for future generations. Left | Passamaquoddy Tribal Governor William Neptune (center) with members of Company I, 106th Infantry, 26th Division, ca. Learn more 1918. Pleasant Point Reservation, Maine. Photographer unknown. P18364 AmericanIndian.si.edu/NNAVM Above | War bonnets adorn uniform jackets at a Ton-Kon-Gah (Kiowa Black Leggings Society) ceremonial near Anadarko, Oklahoma, 2006. Smithsonian NMAI National Museum of the American Indian Contents SPRING 2017 VOL. 18 NO.1 .............................18 THE HEYE CENTENARY YEAR 12 “THE VISION AND THE DREAM” 20 A symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of the American Indian brings reflections on the achievements of the predecessor of our Museum and its founder George Gustav Heye, as well as recollections of the transition to a Smithsonian institution. 12 100 YEARS AND COUNTING by John Haworth 18 THE VISION AND THE DREAM By Patricia Zell ............................. SOUTHERN JOURNEYS 28 20 ON THE COVER THE GUARANI ALTAR NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERICAN The Pai Tavytera, a group of Paraguay’s Guarani Indians, Museum-sponsored digs unearthed some of the carved a ceremonial altar for donation to the National early treasures of George Gustav Heyes’s Museum of Museum of the American Indian as a way of preserving the American Indian (MAI), the predecessor of our their culture. Deceptively simple, it tells a deep story SPRING 2017 INDIAN collection. This seat from the Manteno culture of about their place in the cosmos. Ecuador, circa A.D. 500 to 1500, was excavated by Marshall H. Saville between 1906 and 1908, with the support of the Heye Foundation. Although no one is 28 certain, it might have been used by spiritual leaders for UNEARTHING THE STORY OF TIBES SOUTHERN astronomy, weather predictions or public ceremonies When Hurricane Eloise brushed southern Puerto Rico JOURNEYS for agriculture. Other highlights from these excavations in 1975, it uncovered an ancient ceremonial complex AN ECO-TOURIST are now on display at the National Museum of the buried for more than seven centuries. L. Antonio Curet, IN ECUADOR the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology, reports on the LESSONS FROM TIBES American Indian – New York in the exhibition Ceramica GUARANI DONATION de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed, changing interpretations of its picture of indigenous through December. This tradition continues in the social structure. MOROSO centenary year of the MAI with the work of L. Antonio A + THE BOSTON MARATHON: Curet, the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology, at the AN INDIAN TRADITION HEYE’S VISION AT Tibes ceremonial site in Puerto Rico. 34 ONE HUNDRED CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TOURIST BY ERNEST BY Manteno seat, A.D. 500–1500. Cerro Jaboncillo, on the A traveler from our Museum agonizes over the morality coast of Mantas, Ecuador. Stone; 15.7" x 26.8" x 29.5". PHOTO of a package tour to a Kichwa village on the Ecuadoran Collected by George H. Pepper. 1/6380. headwaters of the Amazon. He goes, anyway. 2 AMERICAN INDIAN SPRING 2017 Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (Required by 39 USC 3685) filed September 29, 2016. 1. Publication Title: National Museum of the (1) Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscriptions American Indian Stated on PS Form 3541 (Include paid distribu- 2. Publication Number: ISSN 1528-0640 tion above nominal rate, advertiser’s proof copies, and exchange copies): 38,211 / 37,697 3. Filing Date: September 29, 2016 (2) Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions Stated 4. Issue Frequency: Quarterly on PS Form 3541 (Include paid distribution 5. Number of Issues Published Annually: Four (4) above nominal rate, advertiser’s proof copies, 6. Annual Subscription Price: $25.00 and exchange copies: 0 / 0 7. 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