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Native America Calling: Trump Administration escalates attack on Native American museum narratives

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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Trump Administration escalates attack on Native American museum narratives

A new 162-page report just released by the White House flags a museum exhibition for what it says is “radical, activist ideology” that “seeks to teach disdain and inspire disgust of our great country.”

The report faults Native land acknowledgements, mentions of stolen land, and the use of the term “genocide” connected to an ongoing exhibition by the National Museum of the American Indian. The report by the White House Domestic Policy Council argues leaders at the Smithsonian Institution have pushed an agenda of social justice advocacy instead of objective historical research.

Tune in to talk with Native historians and curators about this new escalation of the Trump Administration’s drive to change existing narratives about Native history.

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Guests on Native America Calling

Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and Hodulgee Muscogee), a founding trustee of NMAI, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the first Native woman elected to the oldest learned societies in the United States – the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rick Hill Sr. (Tuscarora), vice president of the Niagara Academy for Indigenous Relations

Dr. Samuel Torres (Mexica/Nahua), deputy CEO of the National Native America Boarding School Healing Coalition

Sierra Biidaaban Nadeau (Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabe), author of “What the Ancestors Say”, award-wining journalist, and reporting specialist for Miigwech Inc.

Visitors view an exhibition about Native veterans at the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)