Richard West, Jr., Founding Director Emeritus of the National Museum of the American Indian will give the 11th annual William R. Farrand Lecture. Established in 1989, the National Museum of the American Indian is an institution of living cultures dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. West will speak about what makes the National Museum of the American Indian different from other museums, and about the new models for museum practice that they have developed.