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Researchers divide their time between the public exhibition halls on the Mall and collection facilities in Suitland, balancing daily downtown security screenings against regular suburban transit trips.
The museum operates under federal legislation establishing it as a living memorial to Native American traditions. Congressional action followed widespread controversy over ancestral remains held in Smithsonian storage, creating mandatory repatriation processes for sacred items, funerary objects, and cultural patrimony. In addition to exhibition galleries on the National Mall, operations include active return claims.
The institution spans multiple facilities rather than a single capital monument. Most core holdings originate from the historic George Gustav Heye collection, which joined the Smithsonian through a political compromise preserving gallery space at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan. Long-term researchers split technical preservation work between the capital Mall and the Cultural Resources Center in Maryland.
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