{"id":678644,"date":"2026-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=678644"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:44:11","slug":"native-america-calling-trump-administration-escalates-attack-on-native-american-museum-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/08\/native-america-calling-trump-administration-escalates-attack-on-native-american-museum-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Native America Calling: Trump Administration escalates attack on Native American museum narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card mb-2\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4 align-self-center\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nativeamericacalling.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native america calling\"\/>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <div class=\"h5-responsive card-title\">Native America Calling<\/div>\r\n        <div>\r\n           Listen to Native America Calling every weekday at 1pm Eastern.\r\n        <\/div>\r\n        <div>\r\n          <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\r\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1859-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/NV1.mp3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/NV1.mp3\">http:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/NV1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\r\n\t\t\tAlternate Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nv1.org\/\">Native Voice One<\/a> |\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeamericacalling.com\/\">NAC<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, July 8, 2026<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeamericacalling.com\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativeamericacalling.com<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nativeamericacalling\/\"><i class=\"fab fa-instagram fa-xs\"><\/i> nativeamericacalling<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nativeamericacalling\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nativeamericacalling<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">\r\nTrump Administration escalates attack on Native American museum narratives\r\n<\/div>\r\nA new 162-page report just released by the White House flags a museum exhibition for what it says is \u201cradical, activist ideology\u201d that \u201cseeks to teach disdain and inspire disgust of our great country.\u201d \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe report faults Native land acknowledgements, mentions of stolen land, and the use of the term \u201cgenocide\u201d connected to an <a href=\"https:\/\/americanindian.si.edu\/explore\/exhibitions\/item?id=934\">ongoing exhibition by the National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/08\/native-america-calling-trump-administration-escalates-attack-on-native-american-museum-narratives\/smithsonian-report-saving-americas-story\/\">report by the White House Domestic Policy Council<\/a> argues leaders at the Smithsonian Institution have pushed an agenda of social justice advocacy instead of objective historical research. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTune in to talk with Native historians and curators about this new escalation of the Trump Administration\u2019s drive to change existing narratives about Native history.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08\/Smithsonian-Report-Saving-Americas-Story.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">Saving America&#8217;s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage<\/a><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">White House Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/08\/native-america-calling-trump-administration-escalates-attack-on-native-american-museum-narratives\/smithsonian-report-saving-americas-story\/\">Saving America&#8217;s Story &#8211; How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Guests on Native America Calling<\/div>\r\nSuzan 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 \u2013 the American Philosophical Society and the <a href=https:\/\/www.amacad.org\/person\/suzan-shown-harjo>American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nRick Hill Sr. (Tuscarora), vice president of the <a href=https:\/\/niagaraacademy.org\/>Niagara Academy for Indigenous Relations<\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nDr. Samuel Torres (Mexica\/Nahua), deputy CEO of the <a href=https:\/\/boardingschoolhealing.org\/>National Native America Boarding School Healing Coalition<\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nSierra Biidaaban Nadeau (Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabe), author of \u201cWhat the Ancestors Say\u201d, award-wining journalist, and reporting specialist for Miigwech Inc.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/08\/native-america-calling-trump-administration-escalates-attack-on-native-american-museum-narratives\/nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-678677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" data-attachment-id=\"678677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/08\/native-america-calling-trump-administration-escalates-attack-on-native-american-museum-narratives\/nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08\/NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"National Museum of the American Indian\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;National Museum of the American Indian&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Visitors view an exhibition about Native veterans at the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. 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