Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb, eds. The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8032-1111-7. 474 pp.
In The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations, Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb have collected essays focusing on the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the ongoing dialogue between Native peoples, museum experts, die media, and scholars. This volume consists of four "critical conversations" that include seventeen essays, and span die historical development of Smithsonian Institution, the creation and development of the NMAI, and responses to these. Common themes …