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In 2004, Baker was appointed superintendent of Mount Rushmore, the first Native American to hold that position. As superintendent, Baker promoted Native American education programs and added interpretive displays to incorporate the perspectives of the tribes.
Gerard A. Baker, Ph.D., is the Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. He has been with the federal government for 27 years; 24 years with the National Park Service and 3 years with the United States Forest Service.
May 21, 2024 · From 2004 to 2010, Gerard Baker served as Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. From April 2010 until his retirement later that year, he served as the assistant director, American Indian Relations, at NPS headquarters in Washington, DC.
Oct 30, 2011 · Meanwhile, Gerard Baker, Mount Rushmore’s first American Indian superintendent, from 2004 to 2010, took another. Under his leadership, park rangers began to include the Lakota perspective...
Sep 23, 2011 · Upon appointment as superintendent in 2004, Baker committed himself to opening up more cultural “avenues of interpretation” at Mount Rushmore and said that the omnipresent sculpture of four memorialized presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln – is “only one avenue and one focus” of ...
Nov 18, 2020 · The following year, on June 6, 1971, a group of Native Americans, led by the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied the carved Mount Rushmore to demand the 1868 treaty be honored. Twenty...
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Mar 11, 2019 · Former Superintendent, Gerard Baker talks about his experience as the first American Indian Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
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