{"id":3261,"date":"2022-01-19T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/news\/smithsonian-names-new-leader-of-national-museum-of-the-american-indian\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:08:32","slug":"smithsonian-names-new-leader-of-national-museum-of-the-american-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/news\/smithsonian-names-new-leader-of-national-museum-of-the-american-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Names New Leader of National Museum of the American Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Cynthia Chavez Lamar, the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s new director of the National Museum of the American Indian, has been named by the Smithsonian Institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Chavez Lamar \u2014 who is a member of San Felipe Pueblo, a Native American tribe in New Mexico\u2019s middle Rio Grande Valley \u2014 will assume the post on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t see this as something that I have achieved on my own,\u201d Chavez Lamar, who is also of Hopi, Tewa and Navajo heritage, said in a phone interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are many Native and Indigenous peoples before me who have been in prominent roles,\u201d she added, \u201cwho have struggled and persevered to ensure that our stories and our perspectives as Native people were heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Chavez Lamar, 51, has served as the museum\u2019s acting associate director for collections and operations since January 2021. Since 2014, she has been assistant director for collections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">She will oversee the museum\u2019s three facilities: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington; the George Gustav Heye Center in New York; and the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Md., which houses the museum\u2019s collections, conservation laboratories, and curatorial and repatriation offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">She earned a doctorate in American studies from the University of New Mexico, a master\u2019s in American Indian studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor\u2019s in studio art from Colorado College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The museum&#8217;s third director will be Chavez Lamar. It opened in Washington in 2004. She will succeed Kevin Gover, a citizen from the Pawnee Nation in Oklahoma who resigned in January 2021 after 14 year. He is now the Smithsonian\u2019s under secretary for museums and culture. Machel Monenerkit, who is a citizen of the Comanche Nation, has served as the museum\u2019s acting director since Gover\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The museum has one of the largest collections of Native and Indigenous items in the world \u2014 with more than a million objects and photographs and more than 500,000 digitized images, films and other media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve endeavored to connect Native and Indigenous peoples to the collection,\u201d said Chavez Lamar, who said she plans to remain in Washington. \u201cMoving forward, that is something that I think is particularly important for the National Museum of the American Indian.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/19\/arts\/design\/smithsonian-national-museum-of-the-american-indian-director.html\">NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Chavez Lamar, the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s new director of the National Museum of the American Indian, has been named by the Smithsonian Institution. Chavez Lamar \u2014 who is a member of San Felipe Pueblo, a Native American tribe in New Mexico\u2019s middle Rio Grande Valley \u2014 will assume the post on Feb. 14. \u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}