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“I started drawing after other people around here had already started. Nobody asked me to draw. Because my son’s wife died when their two children were very young, his children used to be with me....
#WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists @artcaninstitute #Pitseolak #PitseolakAshoona
For children tomorrow, 3/10, at 11am at the DC museum, the story of Josephine Mandamin (Ojibwe of Wiikwemkoong), a grandmother and activist who since 2003 has walked around each of the Great Lakes to protect our planet’s water. https://t.co/WEms9mknZk #WomensHistoryMonth
Tomorrow, Feb 15, from 3 to 5:15pm in DC & online, @NPR's Michel Martin moderates Finding Common Ground. How have African America & Native America shaped US identity and energized each other's movements? Details: https://t.co/KEn63CZrgH @npratc @NPRMichel #SmithsonianCommonGround
As part of her research for "Americans," Cécile literally wrote the book on this American national iconography. "Officially Indian: Symbols that Define the United States" is available at bookstores and libraries, as well as in the museum shop and via https://t.co/vk4KA0hJQI
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.
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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.
@DarkWaterRising @combo_chimbita 🎸@DarkWaterRising—you heard 'em here 1st! OK, you heard them elsewhere 1st, but we're that proud to have had them: https://t.co/4V4RLC5S0W
The Navajo marines who fought in the Pacific during WWII are best known of the Code Talkers... #NavajoCodeTalkersDay https://t.co/BjFX5L1KzP
For #narwhalweek, Pitseolak Ashoona (Inuit, 1904–1983), "Legend of the Narwhal," 1968. Kinggait, Nunavut, Canada. 26/406 1/
In < 2 days teachers arrive in DC for #NK360Inst17. Check #NK360 and #sschat for teacher conversations on #NK360Removal and #inquiry.