Native Americans have had a big role in deciding what will go in the new National Museum of the American Indian, due to open in Washington DC next month. “What they did not want, museum officials found, was the static display of 10,000 years of tribal life and culture. Their ideal museum would celebrate the glories of the past, to be sure, but they also wanted their artifacts and their contemporary culture to be accessible. ‘This is an important opportunity to show tribal people as participants in a living culture, not something in museums or in history books.”