Five potential designs for a National Native American Veterans Memorial can be seen through May 30 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Washington, D.C. From the five designs on display, one will be selected for the memorial. The winning design will be announced June 26.
Which design is your favorite?
Email us at NNAVM-comments@si.edu to tell us which design for the National Native American Veterans Memorial is your favorite. Find the five final design submissions at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/one-these-five-innovative-memorials-will-soon-honor-native-american-veterans-180969060/
Few outside the military know that Native Americans have willingly served the U.S. armed forces since the Revolution and in numbers today that exceed the percentage of any other population group. To recognize their extraordinary service, Congress charged the museum to build a National Native American Veterans Memorial to give “all Americans the opportunity to learn of the proud and courageous tradition of service of Native Americans in the Armed Forces of the United States.”
The memorial will be located on the museum’s grounds on the National Mall. The museum and an advisory committee of Native American military officers, veterans, gold-star families and leaders conducted 35 regional consultations in American Indian Nations to seek input and support for the memorial
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