It wasn’t until 2020 that the National Gallery of Art made its first acquisition of a painting by a Native American artist: “Target,” a 1992 mixed-media work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation in Montana. Three years later, Smith is the curator of “The Land Carries Our Ancestors,” the museum’s first exhibition of Native American artists in 30 years and its first featuring contemporary Native American artists since 1953.