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Foundation, and Public Law 101-185, the Regents appointed a 25-member Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian on January 29, 1990. Recently, resignations brought two vacancies to the Board, and the Trustees have recommended appointment of Ann Rockefeller Roberts and Keith H. Basso. Brief biographical data on the proposed appointees follows, as does a full list of the membership as proposed. The following motion is suggested.

VOTED that the Board of Regents, in accordance with Public Law 101-185, appoints to the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian Ann Rockefeller Roberts and Keith H. Basso for terms consonant with the provisions of the Trustees' Bylaws.

Ann Rockefeller Roberts is the founder of the Fund of the Four Directions, a private philanthropic organization. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Mind/Body Medical Institute and the MS. Foundation. Her past affiliations include: President of the Rockefeller Family Fund, the National Women's Political Caucus, and Trustee of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York City.

Dr. Keith H. Basso, formerly of Yale University, is Professor at the University of New Mexico. His books include: The Cibecue Apache, Portraits of "The Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache, Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology. He has been a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and is currently a Director for the Association on American Indian Affairs. He is also a member of the National Research Council Graduate Minority Fellowship Committee and the Quincentennial Committee of the Arizona Council on the Humanities.

Membership of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian:

Robert McC. Adams, ex officio
Keith H. Basso of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ernest L. Boyer of Princeton, New Jersey
Barber B. Conable, Jr., of Alexander, New York
Vine Deloria, Jr., of Boulder, Colorado
Tom L. Freudenheim of Washington, D.C.
Suzan Shown Harjo of Washington, D.C.
Norbert S. Hill of Boulder, Colorado
Frederick E. Hoxie of Chicago, Illinois
Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii
Jennie Joe of Tucson, Arizona
Alvin Josephy, Jr., of Greenwich, Connecticut
Clara Sue Kidwell of Berkeley, California
N. Scott Momaday of Tucson, Arizona
Waldemar A. Nielsen of New York, New York
Janine Pease-Windy Boy of Crow Agency, Montana
Allen V. Pinkham of Lapwai, Idaho
Ann Rockefeller Roberts of New York, New York
David Rockefeller of New York, New York
Harold Dean Salway of Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Helen M. Scheirbeck of Pembroke, North Carolina
David Hurst Thomas of New York, New York