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Tewa Dancers From the North Perform Eagle Dance
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Lizard Light Productions was out at the Heard Museum Guild 2014 Indian Fair and Market and captured the Tewa Dancers from the North performing the Eagle Dance.
Tewa Dancers from the North, are a traditional... Read more »

A Journey with our Ancestors: Coast Salish Canoes
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The Hibulb Cultural Center and Natural History Preserve in Tulalip, WA recently opened a new exhibit touting the importance of the canoe culture to their people.
Brandi N. Montreuil with Tulalip News went to th... Read more »

Watch the Iroquois Nationals Attack at World Lacrosse Championship
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The 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championship will take place in Denver July 10–19, 2014. The Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team should have a chance at winning first place with the addition of the Thompson triple threat... Read more »

NMAI Answers: ‘Do American Indians celebrate the 4th of July?’
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Dennis Zotigh (Kiowa/San Juan Pueblo/Santee Dakota Indian) is a writer and cultural specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. He recently posed the question, "Do American... Read more »

‘I’m contemporary, I’m Native American and I’m an artist’
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Rocky Mountain PBS takes a look at some of the artists featured in an exhibit that opened this past spring at the Center for Visual Art - Metropolitan State University of Denver. The "Cross Currents" exhibit wanted to... Read more »

Marine Dances at Iowa Tribal Pow Wow
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The 29th Annual Iowa Tribal Powwow took place in Perkins, Oklahoma the weekend of June 20th-22nd.
Hugh Foley attended the pow wow and captured this video of Lance Corporal Trey Iron dancing in his dress blues unifo... Read more »

Beadworker Teri Greeves And Her Mother, Jeri Ah-Be-Hill, Talk About Kiowa Clothing – Video Of The Week
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Beadworker Teri Greeves and her mother, Jeri Ah-be-hill, talk about Kiowa clothing
Beadworker Teri Greeves and her mother, Jeri Ah-be-hill, talk about Kiowa leggings and naming outfits. Teri follows and updates the K... Read more »

Ghostkiller Movie: Can One Man Save His Ancestors?
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I'm a sucker for time travel films, so when I heard about this project I had to share. This IndieGoGo project is based on the popular novel Scattered Leaves: The Legend of Ghostkiller by Lynny Prince. The synopsis: Ky... Read more »

Wyoming’s Largest Pow Wow: Stories from Eastern Shoshone Days
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Gregory Nickerson with WyoFile recently attended the 55th Annual Eastern Shoshone Indian Days and sat and talked with many of the attendees of the pow wow, including dancers and organizers. The story below paints ... Read more »

Native All-Star Football Classic This Weekend
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Those in Texas are gearing up for the 2014 Native All-Star Football Classic, held July 5, 2014 at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). 45 young men from all over Indian Country will attend the football camp... Read more »

SovereignBodies Aims to Advance Native Women’s Access to Health Services
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In a press release from Vision Maker Media, they have announced their collaboration with the producers of Young Lakota for the release of www.SovereignBodies.com. The website is a transmedia project that will tackle d... Read more »

When Cultures Collide – Tai Chi and Pow Wow?
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This video comes from YouTube User Alex Copenace. As the story goes, they were passing by a man practicing Tai Chi in the park.
When we approached this guy he was standing in a meditation pose. I asked him what h... Read more »
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