Abstract
During the spring semester of 2005, I worked on a special edition of the American Indian Quarterly devoted to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.1 In the edition, eight scholars from a range of disciplinary and ethnic backgrounds weighed in on this important site of Native American history and memory, a site that indigenous people fought for, helped raised money to build, and collaborated on in all phases of its development. My goal in this edition was to allow scholars, both Native and nonNative, to offer their perspectives on the museum, which received a wide variety of responses from the mainstream media, tribal communities, the academic world and the general public. The first wave of reviews came from journalists who were overwhelmingly critical of the museum.2 These journalists especially criticized the privileging of indigenous voice and perspec-
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