Abstract The historic Southwest Museum was founded by Charles Fletcher Lummis and incorporated in Los Angeles, California on 1907 December 31, making it the first museum in Los Angeles. The Southwest Museum is known nationally and internationally for the archaeological, ethnological and library collections that it holds relating to Native Americans spanning from Alaska to Terra del Fuego. In 2003, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and the Autry Museum of Western Heritage merged to form the...