Check out what we're up to in 2024 ...- 2024 Highlights events
- The Trouble with History (In-Person Professional Development NMAI-NY)
- Becoming a Native Knowledge 360° Educator: Is a Treaty Intended to Be Forever? (Online)
- Winter Blast: A Family Day of Native Games (NMAI-NY)
- Visit the imagiNATIONS Activity Centers (Tuesday–Sunday, NMAI-NY and NMAI-DC)
- In Our Community: Last Chance to see The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
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We have exciting plans for you in 2024 to celebrate two big milestones: the 20th anniversary of the opening of the museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and the 30th anniversary of the New York City museum. Check out the museum’s calendar for monthly public events at both locations.
2024 Highlights events:
Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains
Opening May 18; Washington, D.C.
2024 Folklife Festival: Indigenous Voices of the Americas
June 2-30 and July 3-7; Washington, D.C.
Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay
Opening Sept. 19; Washington, D.C.
The Trouble with History
In-Person Professional Development
Upper ElementaryMiddle School
Saturday, Jan. 27, 9:30 AM-12 PM
New York, NY
Did Native people really sell Manhattan? Join us at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York for a tour of the exhibition Native New York and an in-person professional development workshop. Using the museum’s educational initiative, Native Knowledge 360° online lesson Early Encounters in Native New York: Did Native People Really Sell Manhattan?, we will explore the alleged sale of Manhattan in 1626 from the perspectives of both Dutch and Lenape traders. Educators will receive resources, CTLE, and a certificate of participation. Space is limited.
Winter Blast: A Family Day of Native Games
Saturday, Jan. 27, 12-5 PM
New York, NY
Warm up on a cold winter’s day playing Native games from across the Western Hemisphere. Join Amanda Attla (Athabascan Yup’ik), a coach and judge for the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, as she teaches games of mental and physical skill. Challenge yourself to a game of Inuit yo-yo, ring and pin, kōnane (Hawaiian checkers), Inuit high kick, and more. Then take a break to work on your dance moves by learning the hula with Kaimana Chee (Native Hawaiian).
Becoming a Native Knowledge 360° Educator: Is a Treaty Intended to Be Forever?
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 7-8:15 PM ET | Online
Free, but registration is required.
The museum is providing a new teacher workshop series this winter as part of its educational initiative: Becoming a Native Knowledge 360° Educator: Is a Treaty Intended to Be Forever? In this series, educators will apply the museum’s “Becoming an NK360° Educator” framework to the topic of treaties. Using an inquiry-based approach, we will examine the importance of treaties as primary source documents in your classroom. Find more information for the event and register here.
To dive deeper into a specific treaty and case study, select a second session of your choice according to grade.
High School Session: Northern Plains (Horse Creek Treaty of 1851)
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 7-8:15 PM ET | Online
Free, but registration is required. Register here.
Upper Elementary Session: Virginia (Treaty of Middle Plantation of 1677)
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7-8:15 PM ET | Online
Free, but registration is required. Register here.
Middle School Session: New Mexico (Navajo Treaty of 1868)
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 7-8:15 PM ET | Online
Free, but registration is required. Register here.
Visit the imagiNATIONS Activity Centers
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 AM-4:30 PM
New York and Washington, D.C.
Bring the whole family and enjoy the imagiNATIONS Activity Centers at our New York and Washington, D.C., museums. The interactive, family-friendly centers provide young visitors a lively space with a wide variety of learning experiences. Both centers are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Additional visitor information is available on our website.
Visit the museum online
If you can’t visit us now in person, you can check out our online exhibitions—Ancestors Know Who We Are, Developing Stories, and Why We Serve—enjoy our past virtual programs from home, read the museum’s magazine, and look at the resources available in our Native Knowledge 360º website, including the new Pamunkey Digital Storybook Life Along the River: The Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia, a digital storybook that explores the history and contemporary lives of the Pamunkey peoples.
In Our Community
If you are in D.C., don’t miss your chance to see The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans before it closes this Monday, January 15.
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
National Gallery of Art, East Building
On view through January 15.
The exhibition brings together works of mixed media by nearly 50 living, intergenerational Native artists, and was curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). See more even after it closes here.
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