Dr. Gerald McMaster, an aboriginal Canadian (Plains Cree), is currently the Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He holds a PhD from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation, University of Amsterdam. A widely published author on artistic, cultural and museological issues, he was Curator of Contemporary Indian Art, from 1981 to 2000, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec.