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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:08:39 PST
From: Jean Rogers <JEANR@gs3.grad.washington.edu>
To: Grad Program Advisors/Assts <gpaa@gs3.grad.washington.edu>
Subject: W. Richard West, Jr. Lecture 

Please pass this on to those you think might be interested.

Thanks,
Jean Rogers
Minority Education Division
543-9016

The Graduate School Minority Education Division presents the 1995 
Mangels Lecture featuring W. RICHARD WEST, JR., Director  of the 
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

                    "Indian America in the 21st Century:
                    Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire?"

                        MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1995
                           7:30 P.M., 210 KANE

                          ADMISSION COMPLIMENTARY
                            RECEPTION FOLLOWING

West is a Southern Cheyenne and a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho 
Tribes of Oklahoma.  He is the son of renowned Southern Cheyenne 
artist Walter Richard West, Sr. and Maribelle McCrea West.  He has 
devoted his professional and much of his personal life to working 
with American Indians on cultural, educational, legal, and 
governmental issues.  

Before joining the Smithsonian staff, West was:
- a partner in the Indian-owned Albuquerque law firm of
   Gover, Stetson, Williams & West; and
-associate attorney and partner in the Indian and corporate 
departments of the Washington DC branch of the New York based firm 
Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson.

In both firms West represented  Indian tribes before the US Supreme Court.

West earned his bachelor's degree(American History) from the Univ of 
Redlands in California, masters (American History) from Harvard, and 
JD from Stanford's School of Law.  

As director of the new Smithsonian museum, West has supervised the 
architectural process and program planning for the museum's three 
elements: the national museum in Washington, DC, the Heye Center of 
the NMAI in New York and the Cultural Resources Center (which will 
house the museum's collections) in Suitland, MD.  West has 
established a collections management policy that includes a policy on 
repatriation of sacred and ceremonial objects, and hi is involved in 
consultations with native communities throughout the Americas to win 
support for the Museum and to involve Native Americans in 
the planning stages.

If you would like further information regarding this lecture, please 
call the Minority Education Division of the Graduate School at 
543-9016.

  
Cynthia A. Morales
Assistant to the Dean
The Graduate School  AG-10
University of Washington
Seattle, WA.  98195

e-mail: cm@gs3.grad.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 543-9016
Fax: 206-685-3234


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