we are live from the national museum of the american indian, joined by museum director kevin gover. explain first the exhibit you are sitting in now and the story it tells about how native american imagery is represented and portrayed in popular culture. >> thank you and good morning and welcome to the national museum of the american indian. i have -- i am in a gallery for the exhibition we call americans. this is an exhibition, as you would expect, in part native americans, but also about americans generally and american culture. we have become intrigued about how native american imagery is used broadly in the american culture. and so on the walls in this gallery, you will see many depictions of native american people, native american designs, and we literally use it as wallpaper to make the point that at the same time indians are everywhere in the popular culture, but remain unknown to most people here in the united states. >> do you think the average american has a sense of how often we see these images in our everyday lives and the products that are purchased at the store, compa

you are on with kevin gover. the tribes, we have in seattle that landed here -- i call it our plymouth rock as opposed to the east coast. they were supposedly recognized by clinton. unrecognizednd he -- how can you unrecognize a tribe? please enlighten me. thank you. i am: well, i should say not a neutral on this question. in a prior life, i was the assistant secretary for indian affairs at the department of the interior. and one of the matters that came ofore me was the petition the dual amish for federal recognition. through a variety of circumstances, it was only in the closing days of the clinton administration that both the chinook tribe and the other tribe finally were granted federal recognition through the administrative process. appealed,sions were and while george w. bush was president. thehe course of the appeal, administrative law judges determined that we should not have granted recognition to chinook. so that is the process. it is not an easy one. i think in many respects it is a tremendously unfair

of those collections and try to show them as much as we can to our viewers, as we are joined by kevin gover, the director of the museum. before we get too far into the segment, is there a preference between native american and american indian? that: we get asked to question more often than you

you are on with kevin gover.he tribes, we have in seattle that landed here -- i call it our plymouth rock as opposed to the east coast. they were supposedly recognized by clinton. unrecognizednd he -- how can you unrecognize a tribe? please enlighten me. thank you. i am: well, i should say not a neutral on this question. in a prior life, i was the assistant secretary for indian affairs at the department of the interior. and one of the matters that came ofore me was the petition the dual amish for federal recognition. through a variety of circumstances, it was only in the closing days of the clinton administration that both the chinook tribe and the other tribe finally were granted federal recognition through the administrative process. appealed,sions were and while george w. bush was president. thehe course of the appeal, administrative law judges determined that we should not have granted recognition to chinook. so that is the process. it is not an easy one. i think in many respects it is a tremendously unfair p

my name is kevin gover i'm the director at the national museum of the american indian. where here to talk about the national native american veterans mi

my name is kevin gover i'm the director at the national museum of the american indian. where here to talk about the national native american veterans memorial and broke ground for it this morning and we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. so, were glad that you're here and we're excited to be talking about the memorial and let's get right to it is with me is harvey pratt with. he's a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. he is a piece chief and has been a career law enforcement official. he is a working artist and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. please greet for harvey pratt (applause) what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed designed for the memorial? >> our veterans director just kept after me. i had no -- i really had no hope that i would even come closer, submit a design. he just kept after me and said, do it for the tribe and i said let me dream on it and i said i have to dream. some of my best creativity is done early in the morning in that dream period and so that's what i did. i went home and i dreamed about it and i got my big