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Gwyneira Isaac

Gwyneira Isaac is Curator of North American Ethnology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Her research investigates knowledge systems and the relationships societies develop with their past, especially as to how this is expressed through museums. Central to this study is her ethnography of a tribal museum, Mediating Knowledges: Origins of a Museum for the Zuni People (2007), in which she examines challenges faced by Zunis operating between Zuni and Euro-American approaches to knowledge. She is currently director of the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative—a collaborative effort with communities to address issues of indigenous language and knowledge sustainability at the national and global level.

A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian highlights the ways in which American Indians have been part of the nation’s identity since before the country began. (Ernest Amoroso, Smithsonian)

New Exhibit Reveals Indians Everywhere...Except in Your Textbooks

Gwyneira Isaac, the National Museum of Natural History's Curator of North American Ethnology, reviews the newest exhibit on display at the National Museum of the American Indian.

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