National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

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National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) traces back to the famous George Gustav Heye (1874-1957), who assembled numerous artifacts/ objects for the historical analysis of uncovering the mystery of the native past and present and uncovering the mystery of the origin of the red man. Different authors have come up with other narratives concerning the exhibits collected. This paper aims to have a clear outlook of the descriptions, ideas, and how hegemonic narrative relates to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).
The Dunbar-Ortiz, Deloria, Trask, and Nakano Glenn narratives express different concepts concerning the artifacts displayed at NMAI. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, objects collected carry the nation's memories of how it got formed to the now current being. The policies have come into existence in the United States to touch the native indigenous people (Dunbar-Ortiz, p32). Therefore, the history of the people and the present world connect with the ancestors. Free land is what made the European settlers get attracted to the ground. The unity of the people and immigrants came up with the different identity of the people, and American culture is a merger of racial groups. Multiculture came up in North America, and it has transformed indigenous people into racial clusters since they never supported multiculturism.
Several items relate to the history of the indigenous people of America. Regarding the origin narrative, United States came up due to rebellion. To know the current experiences and the past of the indigenous people, "creative thinkers" have used Marxism to analyze the identity of the people. North Americans became linked with the corn, and the pre-Columbian Americans connected by paths that became highways and a mega pavement for medium and long-distance travel. In the Pacific, Northwest culture was encouraged through cultural activities and ceremonies, and trade.
The narrative gives detailed information about New York (Deloria, p 53) based on
Deloria's description. Tammany society associated with cultural ceremonies and people
became based on secret fraternal groups that lead to capitalism through important
traditions involved different costumes, signs, and rituals. For instance, Columbia
embraces the use of female figures to portray the national culture of the people.
Indianness for the red men. Trask narrative, Hawai’i is termed as the parent of the
The United States. However, Asians became categorized on sovereignty. The aboriginal
people claim that traditional land belongs to them (Trask, p13). Natives and the
locals had a distance whereby the locals wanted to become Americans regarding the
indigenous land.
According to Nakano Glenn's narrative, ethnicity was developed, which meant people of the same culture and language and racism described the visible difference. For instance, rational oppression became experienced by African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans (Nakano, p45). Under the treaty, tribes would access their ancestral land in Mississippi, and colonial settler schemes on the indigenous people shape based on gender, race, and sexual formation...