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Planning a visit to our Washington, DC museum? Our spaces have resumed normal operations. The Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe is open until 4 PM, and the Espresso bar is open until 5 PM. See what’s on at .

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Only our South Entrance is open. We're working on access for people in need of rest, water, but see photo: Yikes! #WomensMarchOnWashington

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We are thrilled to announce Cynthia Chavez Lamar as the new director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is the first Native woman to be named as a Smithsonian museum director. Read more:

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Thanks to @Apple 's support we can continue telling Indigenous stories and fulfilling our mission. We applaud how "Killers of the Flower Moon" has led to history-making milestones, increasing the visibility of Indigenous creatives on the world stage.

Apple Announces Grants to Sundance Institute Indigenous Program and the Smithsonian’s National...

Apple announced grants to the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

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We are honored to announce that the jury has unanimously selected a design concept for the National Native American Veterans Memorial, to be built on the grounds of the museum in Washington, D.C.—"Warrior's Circle of Honor" by Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne and Arapaho). #NAVM #NNAVM

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What a great morning! @LibnOfCongress Carla Hayden today appointed Joy Harjo U.S. Poet Laureate, the first Native American to serve in the position. "Words are powerful and can make change when understanding appears impossible."—Joy Harjo (Muskogee Creek)

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The importance of celebrating the Native peoples of the Americas has never been more widely acknowledged. Now how American schools teach history & encounter needs to catch up. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ColumbusDay #HHM @SmithsonianMag @teachingchange #sschat

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In 1847 the #Choctaw people sent money to help the Irish poor during the Great Famine. Less than two decades after their own Trail of Tears, the Choctaws responded to suffering with kindness. New on Smithsonian Voices for #StPatricksDay . @SmithsonianMag

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Monday is #IndigenousPeoplesDay . Looking for a way to celebrate from home, by doing something fun or meaningful and in the spirit of the day? Our teacher services coordinator in Washington has ideas! NEW @SmithsonianMag

Five Ideas for Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020

On Monday, October 12, 14 states and the District of Columbia, more than 130 cities, and growing numbers of schools will observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day. If you and the young people in your life are...

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Has anyone ever told you that American Indians get a free ride from the government, or that being used as a mascot is an honor? Just in time for #Thanksgiving dinner, the director of the museum gives brief, factual replies to 5 popular myths.

Perspective | Five myths about American Indians

Did one tribe really sell Manhattan for some beads?

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When the Choctaw people learned of the famine in Ireland,16 years after their own Trail of Tears, they took action.

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NEW on Smithsonian Voices: Everyone's history matters. The #Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s curriculum reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. The true history of Thanksgiving begins with the Indians. @SmithsonianMag

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A super bowl that's also a superb owl: Owl effigy bowl, ca. AD 250-800. Burnt Mill Creek, Bay County, Florida. 8/4157 Enjoy the #Superbowl , everyone. #MuseumSuperBowl @Philbrook

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On Sept 21, 2004, some 25,000 representatives of Indigenous nations & tribes from throughout the Americas—the largest known gathering of Native American people ever—opened the museum on the National Mall in Washington. Photo: Cheyenne chiefs in the opening procession (AP). #OTD

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Children graduate from the Ojibway Language Immersion Program. A program to teach students in their native language.

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Happy Birthday Zitkála-Šá, aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Yankton Sioux) a dedicated activist for #NativeAmerican rights. A gifted writer, she was an outspoken critic of Indian boarding schools, having experienced as both student and teacher their policy of forced assimilation #OTD

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Ali and others after "The Longest Walk." A protest march, in the name of Native rights. #Alifuneral #indivisible

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Native Americans have been serving in the US Armed Forces since the country’s earliest days. And Native veterans and their families have long looked forward to this recognition. Join us in celebrating a very special #VeteransDay . #nnavm #NativeVeterans

Opinion | A new memorial honors the military service of Native Americans

A memorial brings long overdue recognition to the tens of thousands of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians who have served in peace and war for two and a half centuries.

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Remember the efforts and service of American Indians during this national holiday #MemorialDay http://t.co/4qlxQyhy5Y http://t.co/ahqeFr7l3H

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Construction of the National Native American Veterans Memorial on the grounds of the museum in Washington DC is almost finished. Join us online this Veterans Day—11/11—at 11am ET, when we mark completion of the memorial with a brief ceremony and virtual tour. #NNAVM #Veterans

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It's #NativeAmericanHeritageDay and a beautiful day to be on the #NationalMall . Our museum in Washington is hosting hands-on activities for young minds of all ages. Admission and participation are free. Details:

Native American Heritage Day - Family Fun Event

Dance event by Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on Friday, November 24 2017 with 662 people interested and 72 people going.

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Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth by watching #Indigenous cinema. Nov. 12-18 Native Cinema Showcase, the museum’s celebration of Indigenous films. This virtual program features 47 films representing 39 Native nations in 13 countries. #SmithsonianNAHM

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💀A Guatemalan–American artist works on a sawdust carpet for the museum in DC as we get ready to welcome guests, living and departed. #DayoftheDead Festival, Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 2 & 3. Details: #DiaDeLosMuertos @SLC_Latino #INDIGENOUS #timelapse

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Water scientist @KelseyTLeonard (Shinnecock) has created an Honor Roll of Indigenous #WomeninScience using #IndigFemSci . #WomenScienceDay

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This #WomenScienceDay celebrate Mary Ross (Cherokee) the 1st Native American woman aerospace engineer #IndigFemSci

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Is it just us or does the design on this quilt look like a firework or a sparkler? 🎆 Wishing everyone who celebrates a safe and happy Fourth of July. _ Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson (Almira Cox Jackson), Assiniboine (Stoney), 1917-2004, "Sparkling Star," ca. 1968-1988. 26/6329.

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🐝Arctic bumblebee queens emerge in May as willows blossom. Among some Inuit peoples, bees and other insects are symbols of revival, used in amulets or sewn into clothing. Miriam Naryak Akanakpiaq (Inuit, b. 1947), bee figure carved from antler, 1975. Nunavut. 26/303 #WorldBeeDay

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The Navajo marines who fought in the Pacific during WWII are best known of the Code Talkers... #NavajoCodeTalkersDay

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This #IndigenousPeoplesDay , "If you value history, justice, and the vibrancy of Indian culture,... encourage schools to replace outmoded histories with rigorously researched content that presents a more complete American history." Kevin Gover @USATODAY

Native American museum director: Columbus was far from the first to discover America

Scores of cities and a growing number of states are renaming Columbus Day to honor the history and cultures of America's indigenous peoples.

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. @LeoDiCaprio 's speech acknowledging #IndigenousNations during last night's #GoldenGlobes

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Washington NFL blind spot: "They are standing there doing something for social justice & right across their chest they have a racial slur."

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American Indian Smithsonian Director calls it ‘aggravating’ the Redskins owner positions himself as a social jus

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🇺🇸Today as we celebrate the #groundbreaking for the National Native American Veterans Memorial, #SmithsonianVoices tells the story of a #Cherokee soldier and the prayer card he carried during #WWII : #NNAVM #NativeVeterans #NativeTwitter @SmithsonianMag

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Remembering #tdih 124 years ago, December 29, 1890, the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota http://t.co/9E8CQfK6NK http://t.co/EFC6xH1teZ

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“If you really want to honor us, learn something about the history of the country. And in doing that, you are going to learn something about your own history that is tremendously important.” @theundefeated talks to the museum's director. #hardhistory @espn

Redface, like blackface, is a sin of white supremacy

Blackface is a damnable blot on the nation’s history. Today many Americans recognize it, belatedly, as the abomination it always was. Redface, too, is a damnabl…

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Calling #K12 #Educators ! Our 2022 Indigenous Peoples' Day Teach-In with @teachingchange is this Saturday, Oct. 1. Our virtual workshops will feature resources from our online education portal Native Knowledge 360° & the @ZinnEdProject .

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Check our Facebook at 11am & 12pm to see the Native American Women Warriors Honor Guard present colors #VeteransDay

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Christmas Eve Navajo Country, ca. 1980. Beatien Yazz (Diné, 1928–2012). Arizona. 25/8487 Wishing you and everyone you love a joyful holiday season. To read descriptions of Christmas in Indian Country, see #Christmas #WinterSolstice #NativeTwitter

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Indians are <1% of the US population, yet Indian images & names are all around us. How did Pocahontas, Thanksgiving, the Trail of Tears & Little Bighorn become so central to our national story? Americans opens 1/18 in DC or online tonight: #NDNsEverywhere

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Maria Martinez is renowned for the perfect symmetry of her ceramics and for their flawless, highly polished surfaces. Maria began signing her work in 1923, but pottery-making was always a family enterprise.... #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists @WomenInTheArts

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Today we offer our support and condolences to the LGBTQ community of Orlando and around the world #PrayforOrlando

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What's going on with your National Museum of the American Indian during #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth ? Mark your calendars throughout November! We'll discuss representation on stage & screen, honor #NativeVeterans , celebrate #IndigenousFilm , and more.

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrates Native American Heritage Month (Nov. 1 – 31) with numerous events honoring American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian

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Miss Indian World, Cheyenne Brady (Pawnee/Sac and Fox) at the museum today. TY for visiting us @missindianworld http://t.co/qTrRR1SdIJ

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The Smithsonian is open, but we're still celebrating America's shared history and ever-richer cultural heritage. #HappyKwanzaa , everyone! Photo: Trumpeter & vocalist Doc Cheatham (Cherokee & Choctaw heritage) w/ trombonist Vic Dickinson and alto saxophonist Earle Warren. #umoja

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🔥 #IndigenousPeoplesDay 10/12 at 1pm, join us online for a special #YouthInAction . Young Native activists address the tension between history and memory, and the current movements happening across America. Plus a performance by hip-hop artist @FrankWaln .

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Final countdown! The design competition for the National Native American Veterans Memorial closes on January 9, 2018, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. For more information, go to: #NAVM #NativeAmericanVeteransMemorial

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The museum extends condolences to the family of George B. Willie Sr. (Navajo), who served as a Code Talker during WWII. Mr. Willie, who was Tó Dích’iínii (Bitter Water) and born for Tábaahá (Near the Water Edge), died yesterday at age 92.

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Without black ash trees, there would be no black ash baskets. Without beeches, no beech-bark canoes. Without willows, no willow-shoot fish traps. Without cedars or spruces, no cedar-bark and spruce-root hats. Happy National Love a Tree Day! #loveatreeday 🌳

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Wishing you and everyone you love a happy new year. 📸 Michelle Tsosie Sisneros (K'apovi//Diné/ Laguna Pueblo, b. 1960). The Canyon, ca. 2000. Santa Clara Pueblo NM. 26/4497 #NewYearsEve #Hello2021

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#HBD to Susan La Flesche Picotte (Omaha), the first Native American woman to become a physician in the US #Native

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On the #NationalMall ? At 1:30 this afternoon in the museum's atrium, Ralph Zotigh (Kiowa) will sing an honor song he composed for #NativeAmericanwomen veterans. He's joined by his son Dennis (Kiowa/San Juan Pueblo/Santee Dakota Indian). #VeteransDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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🇺🇸Tomorrow, #VeteransDay2020 , join us at to open the National Native American Veterans Memorial. A short message will honor Native veterans and their families, followed by a video tour of the memorial. #NNAVM #Veterans #NAHM #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was raised on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She worked tirelessly for American Indian citizenship rights, independence and sovereignty. Full story in our spring issue magazine:

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We asked our friends, Does your tribe have any beliefs or protocols concerning the #eclipse ? Read their replies:

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At one time, Almira Jackson could make a quilt in a day. In her 70s, a quilt a week was about right. She made each member of her family at least one. Happy 1st day of summer! Almira Jackson (Assiniboine, 1917–2004). “Summer Storm,” ca 1976. Fort Peck Reservation, Montana. 26/6304

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Stories of enslaved Indigenous peoples have often been absent from the historical narrative. Join the @Smithsonian for #TheOtherSlavery virtual symposium that explores the hidden stories of enslaved Indigenous peoples, Sept. 24-27. #RaceAndOurSharedFuture

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🇺🇸 Ralph Zotigh (Kiowa) sings his honor song for women veterans at the museum in DC. Tomorrow, 11/10, at 11am, Mr. Zotigh will sing again and bless the World War I memorial being built in Pershing Park, Pennsylvania & 14th, near the White House grounds. @WW1CC #VeteransDay #NNAVM

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DC-area friends: You're invited! Join us this wknd outside @NMAAHC to celebrate our younger brother/sister museum's 1st year. #APeoplesGift

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Join us in celebrating our First Anniversary, September 23rd-24th! #APeoplesGift

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WATCH LIVE @LarryYazzie1 w Native Pride Dancers http://t.co/AuJVx2lINo #NAHM2014 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth http://t.co/xsw23hduUb

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Keene--Even the well-intended erase people via #stereotypes . E.g., we are not all immigrants. Many of us are indigenous. Many came as slaves

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Make a New Year's resolution to strive for equity & social justice for the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere through education, inspiration, and empowerment, in partnership with Native peoples and their allies, like you. How? By connecting with us!

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“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the belief in something more important than fear.” — @BreeNewsome #ANationsStory #mascotsmyths @nmaahc

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″We are not powerless. The existence of our museum is a blow to racism. Each of our lives is a blow to racism.″ An open letter from Kevin Gover (Pawnee) on the challenges America is confronting—the pandemic and “the much older sickness” of racism.

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This #VeteransDay we honor the service and sacrifices of of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian veterans & service members and their families. "Veterans", Jesse T. Hummingbird (Cherokee Nation, 1952-2021). 2016, acrylic on canvas. 26/9780

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75 years ago today #PearlHarbor was attacked. In the #WWII conflict, more than 44,000 #NativeAmericans served in the military #PearlHarbor75

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“Back when I was growing up in the early '60s, my grandpa was one of the head leaders on our reservation.... He used to have giveaways because he had so many horses, a lot of horses.... And that's how he honored his grandchildren....

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Seneca girl holding a puppy in her lap; on the ground in front of her are apples. Seneca Nation of Indians, New York; 1904–1908. Photo attributed to Alanson B. Skinner. P28303 Happy #NationalPuppyDay !

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Beneath the #Debate of the #Washington 'Redskins' Name is an Underlying #Truth : http://t.co/ABOT44zK6Q @HuffPostBlog http://t.co/k81duDEuhx

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"Winyan Wánakikśin" (Women Defenders of Others), an award-winning belt created by Kevin & Valerie Pourier (both Oglala Lakota) depicts 8 Indigenous women defending and preserving Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and cultures through arts, education & advocacy. /1 #SmithsonianWHM

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The Wampanoag Celebration ends today. Check out our website to see the videos available on demand and enjoy listening to the traditional stories of members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). MORE:

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This Saturday, Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. EST. Watch @noblemaillard reading his award-winning #book "Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story", and demonstrating his cooking skills by making #FryBread . YouTube @SmithsonianNMAI #NativeAmerican #childrebook #storytime #MuseumFromHome

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“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, ‘What did you do? What did you say?’” #JohnLewis , 2019 📸"Peace Seeker," Harold Littlebird. (See Comments.)

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Our exhibition "Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal” is on view through January 6. This exhibition takes a deeper look at Indian removal from the Cherokee perspective. How did it happen? Who made the decisions? What was the human cost? #CherokeeNation @CNB_Media

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How are Smithsonian museums in DC honoring American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month? The list starts here:

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Small wood carving of a rabbit, Eastern Band of Cherokee. Purchased from an unknown source by Indian Arts & Crafts Board (IACB) representatives in 1951. Qualla Boundary, North Carolina. IACB Headquarters Collection at the museum. 25/6145 #HappyEaster2018 #Easter @VisitCherokee

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As a national holiday, Thanksgiving glosses over this very difficult truth about the United States: that the country is a national project that came about at great expense to Native people. Learn more about the history of Thanksgiving from curator Paul Chaat Smith. 🎥: NMAI

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We're starting our celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth with a piece by one of the earliest Native women artists whose name we know—a basket with Spanish coin designs made by Juana Basilia Sitmelelene (Chumash, 1782–1838). Read how she came to make it at

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Between #Thanksgiving and #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth , it's national go-time for teaching and learning about Native America. Here, a parent and museum educator shares five ways to make the responsibility less daunting. @teachingchange #edchat #Indigenous

Five Ideas to Change Teaching About Thanksgiving, in Classrooms and at Home

Between Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage and Month, November is go-time for teaching and learning about Native America. Here, parent and museum educator Renée Gokey shares simple ways to...

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125 years ago the 7th Calvary massacred some 300 Sioux men, women & children at #WoundedKnee

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Did you know that 456 tribes names are incorporated into the stripes of this flag? (Jenny "Chapoose" Taylor) #FlagDay

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Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) has been sworn in as the first Native American Secretary of the Interior. We reached out to Indian Country to find out how they're reacting to this historic event.

Reactions From Indian Country to Deb Haaland's Confirmation as Secretary of the Interior

On Monday, March 15, 2021, Deb Haaland (Laguna and Jemez Pueblos) was confirmed as the first Native American Secretary of the Interior.

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High tech kids taking a break at the Powwow in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (Photo by Dale Roberts) #native #tech

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Al Qöyawayma (Hopi, b.1938), Sikyatki style small pot, 2002. 26/605. Carried into space by astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw). #Voyager40

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We will never fully know what #Pocahontas thought of her life or the clash of empires at the heart of her world. But an understanding can be built around her, based on scholarly research and Pamunkey tribal knowledge. From April:

Marking the 400th Anniversary of Pocahontas's Death

The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation, and by the...

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Meet the Code Talkers of World Wars I and II. Learn about their lives and military achievements. Explore classroom materials for educators and students. MORE:

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We’re delighted to welcome visitors again. Bundle up & come visit us in Washington DC or @AmerIndianNYC . Doll family made by Rebecca Malliki (Inuit), 2003. Commissioned by the museum from the Inullariit Society of #Igloolik . Qikiqtaaluk, #Nunavut . 26/9726 #GovernmentShutdown

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The museum on the Natl Mall is open from 10a to 5:30p, w/ restrooms, places to sit, water fountains, and food and drink for purchase in the cafe & coffee bar. Bringing you lunch? Please feel welcome to eat on the low walls along the grounds. #MarchForOurLives #MarchForOurLivesdc

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Mythological serpents. Enjoy #NationalSeaSerpentDay ! Jar with feathered serpent design, AD 1150–1400. Casas Grandes, Chihuahua State, Mexico. 11/9739

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For #NarwhalWeek , Attagootak Innotik (b. 1929, Inuit), "Two Men Carrying a Narwhal,"ca 1970. Ikpiarjuk, Nunavut. (26/236). #ArcticLegend

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For #narwhalweek , Pitseolak Ashoona (Inuit, 1904–1983), "Legend of the Narwhal," 1968. Kinggait, Nunavut, Canada. 26/406 1/

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The Shipibo of the Ucayali River, a tributary of the Upper Amazon, produce some of the finest polychrome prefire slip-painted earthenware pottery in the world. The Shipibo are also one of the few Indigenous groups in which the primary artists are women.... #womenartists #Amazon

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We team up with @NMAfA & @NMAAHC to talk about #Stereotypes in American culture | Feb. 9, 6p @SmithsonianNMAI | Go >

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Do American Indians Celebrate #Thanksgiving ? Readers share why their families do or, in some cases, don't.

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"I am not your mascot, and I don't live in a tipi. See me for who I am." Join us today through Dec. 31 for performances (11:30 am & 1 pm). In collaboration with @SmithsonianKids , this original multimedia play tackles America's assumptions about #NativeAmericans #Free #Smithsonian

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We're sharing stories of American Indians that have shaped this country, from the arts to activism to military service. Follow along & then learn more that might surprise you with our exhibition "Americans": #NDNsEverywhere #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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Today with @SmithsonianNMAI , we are sharing the stories of Native American individuals you might not have known who shaped America. Learn from across the Smithsonian in this thread.⬇️ #NDNsEverywhere

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The #REDressProject calls attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and represents their absence. See the installation by artist Jaime Black (Métis) on the grounds of the museum in Washington March 1–31. #MMIW #REDressProject #WomensHistoryMonth

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Outdoor portrait of a Yup'ik mother and her two young children, 1935–1936. Alaska. Hand-colored lantern slide by Leuman Waugh. L02288 Happy Mother's Day, everyone! #MothersDay

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Navajo families relocated in the 1990s to AZ are raising beef grazed on wild local grasses. Their coop model of ranching shares land, equipment, processing & markets—including the museum's #MitsitamCafe . #foodsovereignty #sustainabledevlopment @CivilEats

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Today is National #Navajo Code Talkers Day http://t.co/HSpM8woPNQ http://t.co/amLptGQUim

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Silver & stone brooch/pin representing a bird, nest, & egg > #Inupiaq artist #eggcellent @smithsonian #NMNH http://t.co/5WWLR6Z1Z1

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Dennis Banks (Ojibwe), a founder of the American Indian Movement who later walked across the US for justice and spiritual healing, has died.

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“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, ‘all slaves are free.’” —Maj. F.W. Emery, on behalf of Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865

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How do Native people make peace with a holiday that romanticizes 1621 and erases the deadly conflicts that followed? Do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving? Native readers answer on @SmithsonianMag . Plus the witty #Thanksgiving video from "Americans."

Do American Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

How do Native Americans make peace with a national holiday that romanticizes the 1621 encounter between their ancestors and English settlers, and erases the deadly conflicts that followed?

www.smithsonianmag.com

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