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Smithsonian opens American Indian Museum on National Mall
Crowds gather for the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian in Washington a color ful Native Nations procession and speeches by Sens. Campbell and Inouye. Aztec and White Mountain Apache dancers perform as the building showcases 8000 objects and seeks four million yearly visitors.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Museum of the American Indian
National Mall
White Mountain
White River
Ariz
San Francisco
Sens
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
R-Colp
Daniel Inouye
D-Hawaii
Alejandro Toledo Manrique
Deanette Ives
Port Sklallam Gamble
Kingston
Wash
Ives
Lawrence Orcutt
Cali
Fornia
Dave Anderson
Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States
Minnesota
Douglas J. Cardinal
GBQC
Philadelphia
Smithsonian
Richard West
Cardinal
National Museum of the
America
West
Thomas Sweeney
Hemisphere