ew Mexico’s Indigenous-led institutions, such as the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, in Santa Fe, extend their expertise nationally, forging lasting partnerships with major museums from coast to coast. Diane Bird (Santo Domingo), the museum’s archivist, knows this firsthand, as she was the founding archivist for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the. The show represents a paradigm shift between cultural institutions and Native people, as museums begin to forge paths based on community curation and collaboration.
