From their website:

MISSION STATEMENT
The National Museum of the American Indian is committed to advancing the knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere, past, present, and future, through partnership with Native people and others. The museum works to support the continuance of culture, traditional values, and transitions in contemporary Native life.

The National Museum of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Established by an act of Congress in 1989 (amendment in 1996), the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs, encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice.

The museum’s extensive collections, assembled largely by George Gustav Heye (1874–1957), encompass a vast range of cultural material—including more that 800,000 works of extraordinary aesthetic, religious, and historical significance, as well as articles produced for everyday, utilitarian use. The collections span all major culture areas of the Americas, representing virtually all tribes of the United States, most of those of Canada, and a significant number of cultures from Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. Chronologically, the collections include artifacts from Paleo-Indian to contemporary arts and crafts. The museum’s holdings also include film and audiovisual collections, paper archives, and a photography archive of more than 300,000 images depicting both historic and contemporary Native American life.

The National Museum of the American Indian comprises three facilities, each designed following consultations between museum staff and Native peoples. In all of its activities, the National Museum of the American Indian acknowledges the diversity of cultures and the continuity of cultural knowledge among indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere and Hawai’i, incorporating Native methodologies for the handling, documentation, care, and presentation of collections. NMAI actively strives to find new approaches to the study and representation of the history, materials, and cultures of Native peoples.

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I really want to see if I can put together some good genealogy information. Specific to “Skenandore” but generally for all Native Americans.  I’m (making internal commitment) going to be spending hopefully an hour or more each week, putting out feelers, compiling resource lists, posting updates, etc. Each week I’ll put up an ‘update’ post numbered in order with the following sub-sections:

What I want to do:

1. Get copies of genealogy from my brother.
2. Contact an Uncle on my Dad’s side that may have info.
3. Start identifying resources, websites, etc., that might have helpful information and create resource page that can be updated.
4. Email immediate family members (and ask for extended family emails).
5. Remember to spell genealogy right, instead of geneology. (a instead of o)

What I/We accomplished:

1. Genealogy Research 1 post.

What I probably should do:

1. Figure out best time of week/day to fit this project into my schedule.

And any others I think of. Please, please, please, anyone, who has any interest in working on this I could really use your help and support. As our/my Mom used to say, “many hands make light work”. And she had us eleven kids to help prove her point!

Pete Skenandore

-Pete Skenandore