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Cynthia Chavez Lamar becomes the first Native woman to lead a Smithsonian museum

She will oversee the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., as well as the George Gustav Heye Center in Lower Manhattan and the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Md.
Cynthia Chavez Lamar will become the director of the National Museum of the American Indian. She'll be the first Native woman to lead a Smithsonian museum.

The Smithsonian Institution has tapped Cynthia Chavez Lamar to become the director of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which has one of the largest collections

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