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  Acting Navajo Nation AG addresses uranium ore hauling in forum   Heroic 8 year old rescues great-grandmother from family home fire   Gowns worn by Oscar-nominated Gladstone now on display at NMAI  

Bevor New York zur Weltmetropole wurde, hieß es Neu-Amsterdam – und davor Manna-hatta. In dieser Folge reisen wir ins 17. Jahrhundert und erkunden, wie die Lenape lebten, wie die Niederländer Manhattan für 60 Gulden „kauften“ und warum der Pelzhandel alles veränderte.Von Henry Hudsons Entdeckung über Peter Minuits Deal bis zur englischen Eroberung – die Geschichte einer Stadt, die anders begann, als viele glauben….......Das Folgenbild zeigt den Brief von Pieter Schagen an das Parlament in Den Haag im Jahr 1626. Es ist unsere einzige Quelle zum Kauf von Manhattan in Höhe von 60 Gulden........WERBUNGExpressVPN - Ein schnelles und sicheres VPN! Spare jetzt exklusiv 61% auf den 2-Jahres Plan und bekomme 4 Monate gratis! https://ExpressVPN.com/His2GoDu willst dir die Rabatte unserer weiteren Werbepartner sichern? Hier geht's zu den Angeboten!.......Jetzt His2Go unterstützen für tolle Vorteile - über Steady!Klick hier und werde His2Go Hero oder His2Go Legend.......LITERATURShorto, Russell: New York – Insel in der Mitte der Welt. Wie die Stadt der Städte entstand, Hamburg 2004.McCully, Betsy: Lenape Native: The History and Culture of New York's First People, 2018, URL: https://newyorknature.us/lenapes/.Geschenk an William Penn, Wampum-Gürtel, URL: https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_57011........COPYRIGHTMusic from https://filmmusic.io: “Sneaky Snitch” by Kevin MacLeod and "Plain Loafer" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY....... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New fund unlocks millions for tribal clean energy projects Native designer from NM tapped to make 'Rez Ball' uniforms Smithsonian, Cherokee Nation unveil exhibit of 1828 Treaty at NMAI

There is a flip side to the narrative about the cultural richness that Spanish colonists brought to California. Likewise, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in 1848 did more than just spark the largest settler migration in the country's history. In both cases, the damage to the lives and cultures of the state's Indigenous populations was profound. At the time, there were far more Indigenous people than the Spanish or European-descended Americans. In its effort to provide Native-led historical instruction, the National Museum of the American Indian has developed curricula that provides perspective about the people who were there long before anyone else. We'll learn about NMAI's educational goal and how it's being used. GUESTS Irene Kearns (citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria), program manager for Native Knowledge 360 at the National Museum of the American Indian Aaron Golding (Seneca Nation), co-chair of the education committee for the Chicago American Indian Collaborative and senior program administrator at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University Maria DesJarlait (Arikara from MHA Nation and Ojibwe from the Red Lake Nation), education presenter, children's author, and teacher Melissa Kiesewetter, vice chair of the Native American Heritage Fund in Michigan

There is a flip side to the narrative about the cultural richness that Spanish colonists brought to California. Likewise, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in 1848 did more than just spark the largest settler migration in the country's history. In both cases, the damage to the lives and cultures of the state's Indigenous populations was profound. At the time, there were far more Indigenous people than the Spanish or European-descended Americans. In its effort to provide Native-led historical instruction, the National Museum of the American Indian has developed curricula that provides perspective about the people who were there long before anyone else. We'll learn about NMAI's educational goal and how it's being used. GUESTS Irene Kearns (citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria), program manager for Native Knowledge 360 at the National Museum of the American Indian Aaron Golding (Seneca Nation), co-chair of the education committee for the Chicago American Indian Collaborative and senior program administrator at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University Maria DesJarlait (Arikara from MHA Nation and Ojibwe from the Red Lake Nation), education presenter, children's author, and teacher Melissa Kiesewetter, vice chair of the Native American Heritage Fund in Michigan

George Gustav Heye's work in curating a collection of Native American artifacts has enabled many people to learn about indigenous cultures. But his colleting practices and relationship to those cultures are complicated. Research: “Blaming It on the Women.” The Cincinnati Post. June 7, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/761237680/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 “Clinging to the Skeletons.” Hudson Observer. July 22, 1914. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1010104927/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20minisink Dunn, Ashley. “A Heritage Reclaimed.” New York Times. Oct. 9, 1994. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/nyregion/a-heritage-reclaimed-from-old-artifacts-american-indians-shape-a-new-museum.html “G.G. Heye Weds Again.” The Sun. July 12, 1915. https://www.newspapers.com/image/466303140/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Gustav%20Heye%22%20 Haworth, John. “!00 Years and Counting: Reflections About A Collection, A Collector And The Museum Of The American Indian (Before There Was An NMAI).” American Indian Magazine. Spring 2016. Vol. 17, No. 1. https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/100-years-and-counting-reflections-about-collection-collector-and-museum-american-indian Jacknis, Ira. “A New Thing? The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, 2006, pp. 511–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139027 Krech, Shepard, III, ed. “Collecting Native America, 1870-1960.” Smithsonian. 2010. Mason, John Alden. “George G. Heye, 1874-1957.” Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. New York. 1958. “Millionaire Banker and His Bride Direct the Excavation of an Indian Tomb in Nacoochee Valley.” Atlanta Journal. Aug, 15, 1915. https://www.newspapers.com/image/970075438/?match=1&terms=%22dorothea%20page%22 “Mrs. Heye Asks $78,000 a Year for Alimony.” Times Union. May 13, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/557058568/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 “Mrs. Heye Asks Mere $78,000 as Alimony.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 13, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/55217487/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 “New York Broker Loses His Yacht in Making the Discovery, but Doesn't Care Much.” Daily Arkansas Gazette. Feb. 17, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/140551335/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 “New York – Mrs. Blanche A.W. Heye.” Times Herald. June 7, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/79945850/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 New Yorkers Divorced.” Los Angeles Times. Aug. 1, 1940. https://www.newspapers.com/image/385547238/?match=1&terms=%22george%20heye%22%20 “Search for Indian Relics Led to Romance for Millionaire.” The Washington Post. July 12, 1915. https://www.newspapers.com/image/28873246/?match=1&terms=%22dorothea%20page%22 “Should Keep Her Well.” Vancouver Daily World. May 13, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/64394965/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 “Sidelights on the Smart Set.” The Washington Post. Feb. 15, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/28902833/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 Small, Lawrence M. “A Passionate Collector.” Smithsonian. November 2000. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-passionate-collector-33794183/ “Tales of the Telegraph.” The Atchison Weekly Globe. June 5, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/479884327/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 Thompson, Bob. “Return of the Native.” The Washington Post. March 17, 2004. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/03/18/return-of-the-native/3dc64d4a-3f4b-4f69-92bc-0e0f466b0ea8/?_pml=1 “When application was made … “ Lancaster New Era. May 30, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/image/559758414/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20 “Will Appeal Fine for Digging Indian Bones.” The Courier-News. July 30, 1914. https://www.newspapers.com/image/220103480/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Gustav%20Heye%22%20 “Would Arrest Man for Digging up Indians' Bones.” The Morning Call. July 4, 1914. https://www.newspapers.com/image/552564029/?match=1&terms=%22George%20Heye%22%20minisink Zarillo, John. “The Great Trolley Strike of 1895 - Part 1.” Brooklyn Public Library. Aug. 25, 2014. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/08/25/great-trolley-strike-1895 Zarillo, John. “The Great Trolley Strike of 1895 - Part 2.” Brooklyn Public Library. Sept. 3, 2014. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/09/03/great-trolley-strike-1895 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EPA Superfund site Bradford Island clean-up 'slow, but steady' Iditarod kicks off Friday night in AK as Reddington defends title Apple announces grants for Sundance Institute, NMAI recipients

This year the collection of Native films by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian includes 35 films from six different countries. A selected list of films in the Native Cinema Showcase is going online free of charge. The films include a documentary about a young Navajo woman exploring the source of environmental threats on the Navajo Nation and a dramatic account of a woman's interaction with a Maori stranger. We'll hear about the films and filmmakers in this new curated selection of Native-produced and Native-themed film. GUESTS Peshawn Bread (Comanche), writer, producer and director for the film The Daily Life of Mistress Red  Jason Asenap (Comanche and Muscogee), writer and director for the film Marlon  Lydell Mitchell, produced the film Heroes of the West Cynthia Benitez, program manager for the Native Cinema Showcase for the National Museum of the American Indian

This year the collection of Native films by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian includes 35 films from six different countries. A selected list of films in the Native Cinema Showcase is going online free of charge. The films include a documentary about a young Navajo woman exploring the source of environmental threats on the Navajo Nation and a dramatic account of a woman's interaction with a Maori stranger. We'll hear about the films and filmmakers in this new curated selection of Native-produced and Native-themed film.

As we approach November when the country highlights the histories of Indigenous Peoples of North America, it's fitting that Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, based on the book by David Grann, calls our attention to the heinous crimes committed against the Native American Community. In contrast to the narratives many of us have grown up with that cast the "Injuns" and "Red Man" as savages and bad guys, this movie highlights the deception and murder, as well as the racial jealousy that we've begun to see in Black historical films, but that are still new themes in films about Native American Narratives. The fact is, if you grew up learning "Columbus sailed the ocean blue..." or singing the famed Disney line, "Why does he ask you 'how'?" then there are probably a lot of nostalgic moments involving beloved relatives that are hard to let go of. And thinking of heroic leaders as the same people who forcibly removed and killed millions of people to get their land is difficult to process. But if we want to grow and be better as a nation, doing the next right thing starts with acknowledging and teaching the truth to the next generations. Here are resources to help you further explore narratives that should have been amplified long ago. Watch The Osage Murders from the 2022 PBS Short Film Festival to hear the story of the Osage murders told from the Osage perspective. Explore and support cultural endeavors in Native American Communities by listening, watching reading or donating. Watch movies and clips written and produced by indigenous voices. https://native-land.ca/. Join the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and Teaching for Change for a day of online conversation, curriculum highlights, and ideas exchange. If you can't, explore the other links and resources on Smithsonian's NMAI site. It's never easy seeing the dark side of someone we esteem. But if we are truly to love our nation, it has to include loving all of her. In November, take the chance to get to know America's origin story. As usual, all the resources are filled with resources, so you have more than enough to discover with your team, your students or even your family. Finally, here's a short read from Edutopia that you can share in a newsletter or morning email. I wish you a great month of discovery and learning. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hedreich/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hedreich/support

Richard West, Jr. is a founding director and Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. Richard West is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne. He is also a 2021 inductee in the National Native American Hall of Fame. Prior to his time as the Director of the NMAI and the Autry Museum of the American West, he was an attorney in both New Mexico and Washington D.C. As of 2011 he has served on the board of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums. His devotion to community and his incredible vision for leadership has been an inspiration to generations of Native American leaders…and the host of this podcast.

An overview of what Medicine Wheels are and how they can be used.Referenceshttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/medicine-wheelsBell, N. (2014). Education Canada. “Teaching the Medicine Wheel.” Retrieved from https://www.edcan.ca/articles/teaching-by-the-medicine-wheel/Bender, Herman. (2008). Medicine Wheels or "Calendar Sites": Indian Time or the Space/Time Continuum. Time and Mind. 1. 195-206. 10.2752/175169708X309806. Brown, Lionel. (1963). The Fort Smith Medicine Wheel, Montana. Plains Anthropologist. 8. 225-230. 10.1080/2052546.1963.11908351. Brumley, J. (1988). Medicine Wheels on the Northern Plain: a Summary and Appraisal. Ethos Consultuants, Ltd. Retrieved from https://open.alberta.ca/publications/medicine-wheels-on-the-northern-plains-a-summary-and-appraisalCookson, C. (2020). The 9 types of Medicine Wheels in Alberta. Webpage. Retrieved from https://emberarchaeology.ca/the-9-types-of-medicine-wheels-in-alberta/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/shaking-tent https://news.umanitoba.ca/look-to-the-medicine-wheel-for-mental-health-elders-advise-in-first-nations-study/ Marsh, Teresa Naseba, Diana Coholic, Sheila Cote-Meek, and Lisa M Najavits. (2015). “Blending Aboriginal and Western healing methods to treat intergenerational trauma with substance use disorder in Aboriginal peoples who live in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.” Harm Reduction Journal 12 (1): 14. doi:10.1186/s12954-015-0046-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-015-0046-1.https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/exhibition/healing-ways/medicine-ways/medicine-wheel.htmlhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/326016844_Twin_Peaks_Medicine_Wheel_EcOp-51_on_Canadian_Forces_Base_Suffieldhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/235197042_Archeology_and_Native_American_Religion_at_the_Leon_River_Medicine_WheelSaskatchewanderer. Pheasant Rump First Nation -Medicine Wheelhttps://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/objects/NMAI_24751?destination=edan_searchtab%3Fpage%3D6%26edan_q%3Dsun https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/medicine-wheel-in-wisconsin.330454/ Wanuskewin Heritage Park https://wanuskewin.com/our-story/archaeological/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YuwipiMedicine Teachings with Elder Francis WhiskeyjackSupport the show

One photographic exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian packs three powerful essays from Native photographers: the culture and people of the Genizaro in New Mexico, diversity and complexity faced by couples weighing blood quantum as they build a family, and the Navajo heroes and community during the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today on Native America Calling, we guide you through the “Developing Stories” exhibit with Tailyr Irvine (Salish and Kootenai), photojournalist and co-founder of Indigenous Photograph; Donovan Quintero (Diné), assistant editor at the Navajo Times; and Russel Albert Daniels (Diné and Ho-Chunk).

One photographic exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian packs three powerful essays from Native photographers: the culture and people of the Genizaro in New Mexico, diversity and complexity faced by couples weighing blood quantum as they build a family, and the Navajo heroes and community during the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today on Native America Calling, we guide you through the “Developing Stories” exhibit with Tailyr Irvine (Salish and Kootenai), photojournalist and co-founder of Indigenous Photograph; Donovan Quintero (Diné), assistant editor at the Navajo Times; and Russel Albert Daniels (Diné and Ho-Chunk).

Maxfield Parrish is one of the most iconic artist of the Golden Age of Illustration. He was most well known for his calendar covers in the 1920's and 1930's. These would been seen across America's homes at the time, and often the calendar artwork would be saved and framed, after that year had passed. He was also commissioned for many magazine covers, book illustrations and commercial artwork (such as for Jello). But Parrish, like many other Golden Age Illustrators (such as JC Leyendecker and Howard Pyle), did not get the notoriety and name recognition they deserved. Aside from Parrish being probably my favorite artist, he was also a good person to profile as being hidden in history. Guest speaker: Judy Goffman Cutler, Founder and Director of the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island, and the American Illustrators Gallery in New York City. For Judy's full biography, please refer to the People Hidden in History website (link here).  Judy will review key aspects of Parrish's professional life (spanning 70 years) and the 3 distinct artistic style periods. And you'll learn about the history of the National Museum of American Illustration, which houses the largest collection of Parrish's world-wide.  And finally, you will learn about his very distinctive style, which can be fantastical, or photo-realistic landscape paintings. You'll also be given an understanding of his painting techniques which provided a physical luminosity to his canvases. Episode Markers: (in min:secs)Background - National Museum of American Illustration & Vernon Court (2:36)Who was Parrish? (5:25)His father and early influences (8:52)Arc of Parrish's Career - 3 Distinct Phases (11:00)Highlights of Parrish works at NMAI (20:12)The Florentine Fetes by Parrish, & placement in Vernon Court (25:00)The start of Judith Goffman Cutler's Parrish Collection (34:39)Current and Future Exhibits of the NMAI Collection (45:34)Further information:National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) (link here)Maxfield Parrish page at NMAI (link here)Maxfield Parrish Webpage @  People Hidden in History Website (link here) Basic Website with all Episodes/All PlatformsTwitter/Instagram: @phihpodMastodon: @phihpod@historians.socialPHOTO Credit: Griselda by Maxfield Parrish, Image - Courtesy of the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI.

Emily Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, made a career writing poetry and prose and performing it onstage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Research:  "Pauline Johnson." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 23, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631008167/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=90bf3cec. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022. Chiefswood. https://chiefswoodnhs.ca/ Gary, Charlotte. “Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake.” Harper Flamingo Canada. 2002. Gerson, Carole. “Postcolonialism Meets Book History: Pauline Johnson and Imperial London.” From Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature. University of Ottawa Press. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ckpc18.27 Gerson, Carole. “Rereading Pauline Johnson.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/515012 Jones, Manina and Neal Ferris. “Flint, Feather, and Other Material Selves: Negotiating the Performance Poetics of E. Pauline Johnson.' American Indian Quarterly/spring 2017/Vol. 41, No. 2. Mobbs, Leslie. “E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 1861 -1913.” https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2013/03/07/epaulinejohnson/ Piatote, Beth H. “Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison.” American Quarterly , March 2011, Vol. 63, No. 1 (March 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/41237533 Poetry Foundation. “Emily Pauline Johnson.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-pauline-johnson Quirk, Linda. "Labour of love: legends of Vancouver and the unique publishing enterprise that wrote E. Pauline Johnson into Canadian Literary History." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 47, no. 2, fall 2009, pp. 201+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A222315631/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=f22179cc. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022. Quirk, Linda. "Skyward floating feather: a publishing history of E. Pauline Johnson's Flint and Feather." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 44, no. 1, spring 2006, pp. 69+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A146635929/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=e93105ca. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022. Robinson, Amanda. "Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 24 January 2020, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pauline-johnson. Accessed 06 October 2022. Rogers, Janet. “E. Pauline Johnson Research at the NMAI, by Janet Rogers.” Via YouTube. 6/29/2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdBN-m_ZNI Rose, Marilyn J. “Johnson, Emily Pauline.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 1998. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_emily_pauline_14E.html Rymhs, Deena. “But the Shadow of Her Story: Narrative Unsettlement, Self-Inscription, and Translation in Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver.” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Winter 2001, Series 2, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 2001). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20737034  Salyer, Greg. “Of Uncertain Blood: Tekahionwake/E. Pauline Johnson.” The Philosophical Research Society. 3/12/2020. Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs4LctCCYHA Strong-Boag, Veronica and Carole Gerson. “Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake.” University of Toronto Press. 2000. Van Kirk, Sylvia. “From "Marrying-In" to "Marrying-Out": Changing Patterns of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Marriage in Colonial Canada.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies , 2002, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2002). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3347329 VanEvery, L.M. and Janet Marie Rogers. “The Road to Your Name - Season 1, Episode 2: E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake.” January 11, 2021. Podcast. https://theroadtoyournamepodcast.transistor.fm/2 Viehmann, Martha L. “Speaking Chinook: Adaptation, Indigeneity, and Pauline Johnson's British Columbia Stories.” Western American Literature , Fall 2012, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Fall 2012). https://www.jstor.org/stable/43023017 Weaver, Jace. “Native American Authors and Their Communities.” Wicazo Sa Review , Spring, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1997). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1409163  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kathleen Ash-Milby is Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum. She has organized numerous exhibitions of Native American art, including Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe). She was previously an associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian and curator and co-director of the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City. Publications include essays in Art in America, Art Journal, and Joseph Yoakum: What I Saw (2021). A member of the Navajo Nation, she earned her master of arts from the University of New Mexico. She is a proud mom and loves her new life in the Pacific Northwest where she lives with her husband, Edward. NMAI: https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=985 Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe book: https://americanindian.si.edu/shop/publications/books-and-products#6363 Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/dakota-modern/ Find Kathleen's publications here: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Kathleen-Ash-Milby/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKathleen+Ash-Milby

In our inaugural episode, we give the hosting reins to Erin Stewartson, a Graduate Research Assistant at The Ohio State University and ACI Foundation Fellowship Recipient , and Dr. Charles Nmai, ACI President and Head of Engineering at Master Builder Solutions. The two talk about career advancement, their passion for the concrete industry, gaining valuable experience, and navigating changes in the industry. Check out the video podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7SaeKuBzX8 Show notes Erin Stewartson is an environmental engineering doctoral student at The Ohio State University under the tutelage of Dr. Lisa Burris. In her two years at Ohio State, she has had the honor of cementing her love for supplemental cementitious materials through researching the adsorption properties of coal byproducts with a desire to increase waste material integration into the construction industry. Erin is an NSF GEM Associate Fellow, NSF LSAMP URP Fellow, and an ACI Foundation Fellow who seeks to increase the spacing factor available for racially underrepresented women in STEM by fostering a community where they can express their challenges and successes judgment free.   Charles K. Nmai, FACI, is Head of Engineering at Master Builders Solutions Admixtures US LLC in Cleveland, Ohio, the leading provider of specialty construction chemicals used in the ready mixed, precast, manufactured concrete products, underground construction, and paving markets. He has been with the company since 1987 and is actively involved in technology transfer/standards activities and specification efforts to advance the use of durable and sustainable solutions in the concrete industry worldwide.   Engineering Greatness is produced by Association Briefings.  

Quanice sits down with Jen Deerinwater, Founding Executive Director of Crushing Colonialism, to discuss repatriation, capitalism, unity amongst the global majority, and burning this motherf*cker down…all while sipping wine.  Links:Jen Deerinwater's Linktree - https://linktr.ee/CrushingColonialism  Skeletons in the Closet: the Smithsonian's Native American Remains and the NMAI - https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/05/21/skeletons-closet-smithsonian%E2%80%99s-native-american-remains-and-founding-national-museumUC Berkeley Has Only Returned 20% of Its Native American Artifacts and Remains - https://hyperallergic.com/571779/uc-berkeley-hearst-museum-repatriation-nagpraCanadian museums asked to return First Nation ancestral remains and burial items - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-museums-association-repatriate-remains-burial-items-canada-1.6033591How residential schools in Canada robbed Indigenous children of their identity and lives – video - https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/jul/01/residential-schools-canada-indigenous-childrens-lives-videoU.S. to Search Former Native American Schools for Children's Remains - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/indigenous-children-indian-civilization-act-1819.htmlMellon Announces $1.5 Million ‘Generation Now' Partnership for BIPOC Playwrights -https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/06/30/mellon-announces-1-5-million-generation-now-partnership-for-bipoc-playwrights/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2018 990 from Guidestar - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BgDqiJSA9oj6W7u-ddscF4Ar9PW4zznK/view?usp=sharingSpecial thanks go to our sponsor Blk Girl Big Worlds Sips Wine Club - https://blkgirlbigworld.com/sips

This episode focuses on the grave human rights challenges confronted by indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, activism, and film, and more specifically the Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY). It features Carlos Aguasaco, Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Spanish and in coming department chair, at City College's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Cindy Benitez, film curator and scholar specializing in Native and indigenous film and Film Program Manager for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). For further information about the film festival, please visit: https://www.taffny.com/

For this episode, we have the utmost pleasure in interviewing Kevin Gover. Kevin is currently the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, a position he has held since 2007. He is also the Acting Under Secretary for Museums and Culture. Mr. Gover is a Tribal Citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and Descendant of the Comanche Nation. If you are guessing that Kevin and Carlton are related due to the similarity in our last names, you are correct! Mr. Kevin Gover is Carlton's elder first cousin. Guest Smithsonian Website with information about Mr. Gover National Museum of the American Indian Website Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

For this episode, we have the utmost pleasure in interviewing Kevin Gover. Kevin is currently the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, a position he has held since 2007. He is also the Acting Under Secretary for Museums and Culture. Mr. Gover is a Tribal Citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and Descendant of the Comanche Nation. If you are guessing that Kevin and Carlton are related due to the similarity in our last names, you are correct! Mr. Kevin Gover is Carlton's elder first cousin. Guest Smithsonian Website with information about Mr. Gover National Museum of the American Indian Website Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

We know how nonprofits make change. They provide services, teach people how to organize and use those capacities and get legislation passed. Can cultural institutions also make change? In the case of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the answer is yes. While the experience of changemaking may be more personal at a museum, the same strategies are needed to be successful. It starts with a mission to amplify the voices of communities that are too often unheard. And it is powered by a governance structure that includes and is accountable to its constituency. In both cases, they meet members/visitors where they are and hope they carry what they learn forward. As NMAI's Paul Chaat Smith explains, the museum  is about deepening awareness, not promoting cultural tourism. A Comanche author, essayist and curator, Paul walks us through Americans, the powerful exhibit he co-curated with Cécile Ganteaume, to explore how Indian imagery is embedded in virtually every area of American life. Listen to Paul and visit NMAI online until the doors are open to us all again.  

2020 has brought a lot of challenges. But at the same time, it’s brought a lot of opportunities to access educational resources from all around the world that were previously inaccessible to most people.  And right now, there's an amazing opportunity — and necessity — to bring native voices into your teaching and learning every day. To teach us more about what it looks like to bring native voices into both formal and informal education spaces, we sat down with Colleen Call Smith, who serves as an education specialist in the National Museum of the American Indians Office of Education. To learn more, visit: http://pastfoundation.org/ (pastfoundation.org) Resources: https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/ (Native Knowledge 360) NMAI’s https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/manhattan (resources for teachers) Learning Unboxed is produced in part by http://crate.media (Crate Media) Recorded by Eric French at http://wosu.org (WOSU Studios) in Columbus, Ohio

History Riders Radio Podcast HRR 3920 for Week 39 of 2020 – Saturday 09/19/2020 to Friday 09/25/2020. History Riders, ride this Week’s Memory Trail with Doc Boyle to discover an event from Western History for each day of the week; all rounded up from the pages of Old West Daily Reader. Subjects Include: Doc & Wyatt; Wovoka; NMAI; Wild Bunch; The Granddaddy of 'em All!; Seth Bullock; Tenth Hand Cart Company; Tom Mix. (00:06:04)Please leave a FaceBook “Like” and share our link with a friend. Thanks for the visit! - oldwestdailyreader.comSupport the show (http://oldwestdailyreader.com)

Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee) has been leading the only national museum devoted exclusively to Native peoples since 2007. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, NMAI consists of a museum in New York City, a conservation facility in Maryland, and a stunning five-story, 250,000-square-foot golden-colored building with sweeping curving walls and indigenous landscaping on the National Mall. With Native Americans taking the lead in both its design and organization, the museum is home to more than 800,000 Native artifacts from throughout the Western Hemisphere, an archive of more than 125,000 photographs, and a vibrant collection of contemporary native art. It also offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs, public programs, and living culture presentations throughout the year. In this podcast episode, Gover talks about the mission of the museum, which is to celebrate the art, culture, and history of Native peoples as vital and sustaining while unraveling the myths that have been engendered about Native peoples through popular culture. Given the museum's mandate to represent not just the 573 Indian nations in the United States but all the Native peoples in the Western Hemisphere--from the Arctic Circle straight down to South America, Gover has a daunting challenge. He meets it with extraordinary equanimity, insight, and a commitment to collaborative creativity. Here's a look at a museum like no other through the eyes of the man who guides it.

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee) has been leading the only national museum devoted exclusively to Native peoples since 2007. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, NMAI consists of a museum in New York City, a conservation facility in Maryland, and a stunning five-story, 250,000-square-foot golden-colored building with sweeping curving walls and indigenous landscaping on the National Mall. With Native Americans taking the lead in both its design and organization, the museum is home to more than 800,000 Native artifacts from throughout the Western Hemisphere, an archive of more than 125,000 photographs, and a vibrant collection of contemporary native art. It also offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs, public programs, and living culture presentations throughout the year. In this podcast episode, Gover talks about the mission of the museum, which is to celebrate the art, culture, and history of Native peoples as vital and sustaining while unraveling the myths that have been engendered about Native peoples through popular culture. Given the museum’s mandate to represent not just the 573 Indian nations in the United States but all the Native peoples in the Western Hemisphere--from the Arctic Circle straight down to South America, Gover has a daunting challenge. He meets it with extraordinary equanimity, insight, and a commitment to collaborative creativity. Here’s a look at a museum like no other through the eyes of the man who guides it.

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee) has been leading the only national museum devoted exclusively to Native peoples since 2007. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, NMAI consists of a museum in New York City, a conservation facility in Maryland, and a stunning five-story, 250,000-square-foot golden-colored building with sweeping curving walls and indigenous landscaping on the National Mall. With Native Americans taking the lead in both its design and organization, the museum is home to more than 800,000 Native artifacts from throughout the Western Hemisphere, an archive of more than 125,000 photographs, and a vibrant collection of contemporary native art. It also offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs, public programs, and living culture presentations throughout the year. In this podcast episode, Gover talks about the mission of the museum, which is to celebrate the art, culture, and history of Native peoples as vital and sustaining while unraveling the myths that have been engendered about Native peoples through popular culture. Given the museum’s mandate to represent not just the 573 Indian nations in the United States but all the Native peoples in the Western Hemisphere--from the Arctic Circle straight down to South America, Gover has a daunting challenge. He meets it with extraordinary equanimity, insight, and a commitment to collaborative creativity. Here’s a look at a museum like no other through the eyes of the man who guides it.

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee) has been leading the only national museum devoted exclusively to Native peoples since 2007. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, NMAI consists of a museum in New York City, a conservation facility in Maryland, and a stunning five-story, 250,000-square-foot golden-colored building with sweeping curving walls and indigenous landscaping on the National Mall. With Native Americans taking the lead in both its design and organization, the museum is home to more than 800,000 Native artifacts from throughout the Western Hemisphere, an archive of more than 125,000 photographs, and a vibrant collection of contemporary native art. It also offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs, public programs, and living culture presentations throughout the year. In this podcast episode, Gover talks about the mission of the museum, which is to celebrate the art, culture, and history of Native peoples as vital and sustaining while unraveling the myths that have been engendered about Native peoples through popular culture. Given the museum’s mandate to represent not just the 573 Indian nations in the United States but all the Native peoples in the Western Hemisphere--from the Arctic Circle straight down to South America, Gover has a daunting challenge. He meets it with extraordinary equanimity, insight, and a commitment to collaborative creativity. Here’s a look at a museum like no other through the eyes of the man who guides it.

Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche  writer and curator. He  joined the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in 2001, where he serves as Associate Curator. His projects include the NMAI's history gallery, performance artist James Luna's Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort. With Robert Warrior, he is the author of Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, a standard text in Native studies and American history courses. His second book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong is a memoir and commentary from Paul about the contradictions of life in the Indian business. americanindian.si.edu · www.creativeprocess.info

Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche  writer and curator. He  joined the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in 2001, where he serves as Associate Curator. His projects include the NMAI's history gallery, performance artist James Luna's Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort. With Robert Warrior, he is the author of Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, a standard text in Native studies and American history courses. His second book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong is a memoir and commentary from Paul about the contradictions of life in the Indian business. americanindian.si.edu · www.creativeprocess.info

A unique partnership between the Poeh Cultural Center and the National Museum of the American Indian may serve as a model for other institutions with collections of Native items. The Poeh Center is the conduit for members of the seven Tewa pueblos to interact with and share knowledge about dozens of pueblo pots. NMAI is loaning the pots—some are more than 150 years old—to the Poeh Center so more pueblo members can view them and share additional knowledge. The pots are starting to make their journey ‘home’ this fall in what the Poeh Center and NMAI are calling a ‘co-stewardship.’ We’ll hear about how the relationship came about and what it offers for tribes and museum collections.

The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC is marking its 15th year. The landmark museum was initiated 30 years ago by an act of Congress, which also included the creation of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. We’ll talk with the director of NMAI in DC, Kevin Gover (Pawnee) about the museum’s 15 years of cultural celebrations, education and exhibits. We’ll also visit with Suzan Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee and a founding trustee of the museum.

Mary McDonnell and the Lady Bam Podcast traveled to Washington DC last month to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, where we met with Maria Marable-Bunch, Associate Director of Museum Learning and Programs. Maria’s life-long work of bringing museums and educational outreach together has had a tremendous national impact through her programs at the National Archives, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago and numerous other institutions that she’s worked with in her career. With her recent appointment at NMAI, Maria is working to update and change decades-old texts and perceptions about Native Americans through curriculum outreach, along with showcasing exhibits and artists whose work exemplifies the struggles Native Americans have and continue to experience, and the wisdom their culture has to share with us. Maria’s impressive experience and perspective on outreach, education, and the role of museums in our culture is truly inspiring, and we’re thrilled to bring her conversation with Mary to our listeners.  

We're joined by Natalie Jones as we talk about natural history in all its forms: from taxidermy to fluid specimens! Jenny also talks to Lucie Mascord about becoming a natural history conservator, and Kloe talks to David Gelsthorpe about outreach and audiences for these collections. Also tune in for a ‘Dear Jane' about unknown specimens and a review of ‘Dyes from Nature' by Kloe! 00:00:53 News in brief 00:03:23 How do you become a natural history conservator anyway? 00:08:09 Are museums falling back in love with taxidermy? 00:13:08 Definition and range of natural history collections 00:15:54 Working with icky or scary things 00:23:18 Fixing fur with felting 00:28:55 Interview with Lucie Mascord 00:42:49 Terminology and the value of crib sheets 00:46:19 Interview with David Gelsthorpe 01:04:34 Our audiences 01:06:21 Review: ‘Dyes from Nature' 01:11:23 Dear Jane 01:15:11 Patreon shout-out 01:15:50 Questions, comments, corrections: our poll on being parents in conservation Show Notes: - New Chief Executive for ICON: https://icon.org.uk/news/new-chief-executive-for-icon - ICON launches Emerging Professionals Network: https://icon.org.uk/groups/emerging-professionals-network/about-the-epn - #Icon19 Call for Papers Sets New Record: https://icon.org.uk/news/icon19-call-for-papers-sets-new-record - ICON's AGM and Town Hall Debate: https://icon.org.uk/events/icon-agm-0 - NatSCA: http://natsca.org/ - Types of natural history collections: http://natsca.org/types-of-collections - NMAI blog about fur felting: https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2012/04/conservation-challenge-faux-fur.html - Natalie's Twitter paper about needle felting fur: https://twitter.com/nautilusnat/status/916234076486623232 - 7 Million Wonders: https://museumdevelopmentnorthwest.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/7_million_wonders.pdf - Unexpected Encounters: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/rcmg/publications/UnexpectedEncounters.pdf - Dyes from Nature: https://www.archetype.co.uk/publication-details.php?id=248 or https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyes-Nature-Riikka-Raisanen/dp/1909492469 Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey and Natalie Jones. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Additional sound effects and music by Calum Robertson. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2018.

Join Pictures Acquisition Officer and 2017 National Library Indigenous Graduate Jodie Dowd as she shares her experience as the first Indigenous Australian to undertake a placement in collections management at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Jodie will reveal how this experience enabled her to have a cross-cultural exchange with indigenous peoples from the Americas, and how the NMAI incorporates indigenous knowledge into western collection management practices.

Reprise episode y'all. Joy and Jasmine talk to Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch about 18th-century Casta paintings, artworks based on the hierarchical system of racial classification in New Spain. In this podcast crossover, Joy, Jasmine and Babelito analyze the depiction of the body and fashion in four Casta paintings from Mexico. Check out our Instagram @unravelpodcast or our website: unravelpodcast.com for images Figure 1. Miguel Cabrera (Mexican, 1695-1768), De español e indio, Mestizo, 1763. Oil on Canvas Figure 2. Francisco Clapera (Spanish born, 1746-1810), De Espanol, e India, nace Mestiza, c. 1775. Denver Art Museum. Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer Figure 3. Francisco Clapera (Spanish born, 1746-1810), De Gibaro, y Mulata, Tente en el ayre, c. 1775. Denver Art Museum. Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer Figure 4. Ignacio María Barreda (Mexican 1750-1800), The Mexican Castes (Las castas mexicanas), 1777. Oil on canvas. Madrid, Spain You can find Babelito & Latinos Who Lunch here at www.latinoswholunch.com and on Instagram @babelito & Twitter @latinoswholunch Resources Casta Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Donate to our GoFundMe Costume Society of America Dana will be at the Makers & Mentors event at NMAI where teens and young adults can learn about podcasting and textile conservation.

Joy and Jasmine talk to Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch about 18th-century Casta paintings, artworks based on the hierarchical system of racial classification in New Spain. In this podcast crossover, Joy, Jasmine and Babelito analyze the depiction of the body and fashion in four Casta paintings from Mexico. Check out our Instagram @unravelpodcast or our website: unravelpodcast.com for images Figure 1. Miguel Cabrera (Mexican, 1695-1768), De español e indio, Mestizo, 1763. Oil on Canvas Figure 2. Francisco Clapera (Spanish born, 1746-1810), De Espanol, e India, nace Mestiza, c. 1775. Denver Art Museum. Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer Figure 3. Francisco Clapera (Spanish born, 1746-1810), De Gibaro, y Mulata, Tente en el ayre, c. 1775. Denver Art Museum. Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer Figure 4. Ignacio María Barreda (Mexican 1750-1800), The Mexican Castes (Las castas mexicanas), 1777. Oil on canvas. Madrid, Spain You can find Babelito & Latinos Who Lunch here at http://www.latinoswholunch.com and on Instagram @babelito & Twitter @latinoswholunch Resources Casta Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Donate to our GoFundMe Costume Society of America Dana will be at the Makers & Mentors event at NMAI where teens and young adults can learn about podcasting and textile conservation.

2013 Inaugural Ball, Washington DC Rerecorded from Washington DC National Museum American Indian Inaugural Ball 1.Intro - Obama Inauguration Speech 2. Dancing Machine - Jackson 5 3. Devotion - Earth, Wind & Fire 4. Raspberry Beret - Prince 5. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant 6. Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye 7. Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder 8. You're One of My Kind - INXS 9. All Night Long - Lionel Richie 10. I Cant Go For That - Daryl Hall & John Oats 11. Thats the Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band 12. Brick - Dazz 13. Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder / Intro 14. Crazy in Love - Beyonce 15. Doo Wop! - Lauryn Hill 16. I Cant Wait - Nu Shooz 17. Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club / intro 18. Hung Up on My Baby - Isaac Hayes 19. My Mind is Playing Moombah - Geto Boys (Steve1der Remix) 20. I Wish - Stevie Wonder 21. Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley 22. Chillin on the Rez - Casper Loma-Da-Wa 23. Come and Get Your Love - Red Bone 24. A Night to Remember - Shalamar 25. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 26. Blitzkrieg Bop - the Ramones 27. These Boots Are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra 28. Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett 29.Tequila - The Champs 30. Give It to Me - Rick James 31. Dont Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson 32. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston 33. Get into the Groove - Madonna 34. Funkytown - Lipps INC 35. Apache - Incredible Bongo Band 36. We Are Family - Sister Sledge 37. Dont Stop Believing - Journey (Sizzahands Remix) 38. Escapade - Janet Jackson 39. Heart of Glass - Blondie 40. Do Ya Think Im Sexy - Rod Stewart 41. Sexy Back Break - JT 42. Respect - Aretha Franklin 43. Rappers Delight - Sugar Hill Gang 44. All Nations - Clan-Destine 45. Feel for You - Chaka Chan www.twitter.com/djkisszuni www.facebook.com/djkisszuni www.djkiss87327.podomatic.com -------------- ShiwiStyle - Zuni - NM

NMAI archaeologist Ramiro Matos (Quechua) speaks of the value of the contemporary Quechua and Aymara stories and community memory gathered for the exhibition. The road still links the “Four Parts Together”—a geographic, political, and cultural concept alive then and now. And social structures and earth-centered spiritual beliefs that date to the empire and earlier still persist in the region.

The Inkas’ holistic and monumental vision of environmental engineering and administration in extreme and varied environments is being researched for the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire," scheduled to be on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, from June 26, 2015, to June 1, 2017. Welcome by Kevin Gover, director of NMAI, and Wayne Clough, 12th secretary of the Smithsonian. Symposium moderator: Jose Barreiro, National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened its doors in Washington in 2004. The goal? Nothing less than to change how we see the lives of Native peoples. A NMAI curator leads a discussion on hard lessons and brilliant mistakes from the front lines of Washington's most controversial museum.

On May 15 & 16, 2009, the NMAI produced and staged The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu, a play about Native Hawaiians struggling to adapt to the onslaught of Western influences, written by acclaimed playwright Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Native Hawaiian/Samoan). This video provides a behind-the-scenes look at the play's production and rehearsal, and features interviews with the play's director, set designer, and costume designer.

The Alaska Office of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center hosted an Iñupiaq language workshop in January 2011, bringing together eight fluent speakers of Alaska’s northernmost Native tongue for four days of intensive discussions about NMNH and NMAI objects in the Smithsonian exhibition, Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska at the Anchorage Museum. One goal of the project is to document a language that is now spoken fluently by fewer than 600 people, 92% of them over the age of 65. Another is to create language teaching videos for use in the North Alaskan schools. This project represents one of the Arctic Studies Center’s major initiatives under the NMNH Recovering Voices program. From Arctic Studies Center, Alaska.

Today, an encore presentation of part one of a five part series: The Opening Moment: An NMAI Celebration – When the National Museum of the American Indian opened to the public on September 21, 2004, it was a monumental event that will be remembered by generations of Nation peoples throughout the Americas. Native Radio was there documenting it all. Featured speakers/guests: Rick West of the NMAI, performance by Lila Downs Produced by Gregg McVicar. In Memory of Jon Watanabe. The post Bay Native Circle – December 6, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.

Janeen Antoine and Gregg McVicar were there for the grand opening of the NMAI, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington D.C. This historic event was followed by the First Americans Festival — six days of music, dance, food, storytelling and artistry. They have stories and tape to share, as well as the Bay Area Indian Calendar. The post Bay Native Circle – September 29, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.