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Vol. No. 01 Issue No. 02 · Sep. 10, 2008 • www.AmericanIndian.si.edu
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Cherokee rocket scientist leaves NMAI a heavenly gift

Mary G. Ross blazed a trail in the sky as a woman engineer in the space race, and her bequest will propel the museum's future educational journeys.

By Kara Briggs
NMAI Newservice

Photo by Mary McCarthy
Mary G. Ross, the first Native American woman engineer, joins in the opening procession on the National Mall for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Ross, at the time 96, was among more than 25,000 Native Americans at the celebration.

Photo by Mary McCarthy
Mary G. Ross, at 96, sits beside the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian at dusk, following the museum's opening in 2004. Ross, the great-great granddaughter of Cherokee Chief John Ross, died in April 2008.

Photo courtesy of Evelyn Ross McMillan
Portrait of Mary G. Ross, the first Native American woman engineer.

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U.S. Postal Service delivers a tiny timeline of Native America

"The American Indian in Stamps: Profiles in Leadership, Accomplishment and Cultural Celebration" is an Internet exhibition of U.S. postal stamps dating to 1898.

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
The U.S. Postal Service issued a 3-cent Will Rogers stamp in 1948, which bears his trademark saying, "I never met a man I didn't like."

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Will Rogers appeared in postage again Nov. 4, 1979, the hundredth anniversary of the famous Cherokee author and entertainer’s birth.

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Hollow Horn Bear, who fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was featured in the first 14-cent stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 1923.

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
The photograph of Hollow Horn Bear on which the stamp was based. He was known as an outspoken advocate for his people and for peace. He said, "You talk to us very sweet, but you do not mean it. You have not fulfilled any of the old treaties."

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
A stately series of attached housing, which the Anasazi, ancestors of people of the contemporary pueblos, built about 1000 years ago, is featured in this 1934 stamp. The stamp was issued to promote tourism in national parks, such as the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, where the structure is located.

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Holiday Art Market

By Leonda Levchuk, NMAI E-Newservice

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian drew more than 7,000 shoppers for its annual Holiday Art Market on Dec. 6 and 7 in Washington, D.C. Thirty-seven Native artists participated at the Washington event. The market was also held at the museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York, where 3,338 shoppers viewed the work of 38 artists. Native American artists are invited each September to apply to participate in the market.

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Kara Briggs, Editor
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