#nativeamericanculture — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nativeamericanculture, aggregated by home.social.
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Washington Post: Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site. This link goes to an MSN-syndicated article which has no paywall. “In Arizona, construction crews ran heavy machinery through and destroyed a roughly 60-to-70-foot swath of an intaglio, a more than 200-foot-long ground etching that looks like a fish and is thought to be at least 1,000 years old, said Richard […]
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Tulane University: Now open for research: The David Elliott Draper collection on Mardi Gras Indians. “The archival collection contains audio reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, photographic negatives, research notes, annotated drafts, and related materials compiled by David Elliott Draper for his 1973 Tulane University Ph.D. dissertation, The Mardi Gras Indians: The Ethnomusicology of Black […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/18/now-open-for-research-the-david-elliott-draper-collection-on-mardi-gras-indians-tulane-university/ -
New-to-me, from Library of Congress: Preserving U.S. Indigenous Government Websites: From Directory to Digital Archive. “As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/07/preserving-u-s-indigenous-government-websites-from-directory-to-digital-archive-library-of-congress/ -
Upcoming #WabanakiStudies Webinars for 2026
"The #Wabanaki Studies Webinars are back for the spring and we're excited to see and learn from Wabanaki citizens doing such meaningful work. This is a great opportunity to learn more about our cultures, histories, and sovereignty from experts across our homelands.
The webinars are free and open to the public.
- Jan 21- #BrianneLolar - Wabanaki Studies in 2026 [already passed]
- January 28- #KayaLolar & #SagePhillips - Wabanaki Youth & Policy
- Feb 4 - #RogerPaul
- February 11 - #SuzanneGreenlaw
- Feb 25 - #DamonGalipeau
- March 4 - #JohnNeptune
- March 11 - #ChrisNewell - If You Lived During the American Revolution
- April 1 - #BonnieNewsom - Swordfish in Past Wabanaki Lifeways
- April 8 - #MaulianBryant - #WabanakiAlliance
- April 2 9- Kaya Lolar, Sage Phillips, and Youth
- May 6 - #DwayneTomah - #WabanakiLanguages
May 13 - #ApemesimGalipeauFMI and to register:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdI7VEREUSAy_PYfEHCt0wfsNp_nQjZ5U7b9PNRXdqWWHYkgw/viewform?pli=1Source:
https://mailchi.mp/wabanakialliance/wabanaki-alliance-newsletter-11039681?e=7e7095a76c#WabanakiAlliance #MaineTribes #MaineFirstNations #Dawnland #NativeAmericanCulture #NativeAmericanLanguage #TraditionalWays #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #NativeAmericanCulturalPreservation
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Native News Online: NABS Documents 134 More Survivor Stories, Expands Digital Archive in 2025. “This past year, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)interviewed more than 130 Indian boarding school survivors, expanded its digital archive, and released the second volume of a curriculum about the boarding school era. That’s according to the organization’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/21/native-news-online-nabs-documents-134-more-survivor-stories-expands-digital-archive-in-2025/ -
Smithsonian: Smithsonian’s Online Native Cinema Showcase Offers a Slate of Free Short Films by Indigenous Filmmakers. “The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents the online Native Cinema Showcase, celebrating short films by Indigenous filmmakers of the Western Hemisphere. The museum’s annual celebration of the best in Native film will be available to view on demand, […]
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Eastern Agricultural Complex (Phytogeography 🌱)
The Eastern Agricultural Complex in the woodlands of eastern North America was one of about 10 independent centers of plant domestication in the pre-historic world. Incipient agriculture dates back to about 5300 BCE. By about 1800 BCE the Native Americans of the woodlands were cultivating seve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Agricultural_Complex
#EasternAgriculturalComplex #Phytogeography #NativeAmericanCulture #PreColumbianAgriculture
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North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: State Archives to Host Virtual Program on the American Indian Heritage Commission Oral History Project. “Celebrate American Indian Heritage Month by listening to some of North Carolina’s American Indians discuss their history in their own voices during an upcoming virtual Lunch and Learn program ‘Listening to our Elders: the […]
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Forks Forum: NOLS to host virtual talk on how the Nez Perce Tribe regained cultural heritage. “Join the North Olympic Library System (NOLS) and Humanities Washington for “Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage,” a free virtual talk with author and historian Trevor Bond. Register in advance at NOLS.org/HW to receive the Zoom link for the presentation on […]
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Forks Forum: NOLS to host virtual talk on how the Nez Perce Tribe regained cultural heritage. “Join the North Olympic Library System (NOLS) and Humanities Washington for “Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage,” a free virtual talk with author and historian Trevor Bond. Register in advance at NOLS.org/HW to receive the Zoom link for the presentation on […]
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Forks Forum: NOLS to host virtual talk on how the Nez Perce Tribe regained cultural heritage. “Join the North Olympic Library System (NOLS) and Humanities Washington for “Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Their Cultural Heritage,” a free virtual talk with author and historian Trevor Bond. Register in advance at NOLS.org/HW to receive the Zoom link for the presentation on […]
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DigitalNC: Newest Partner Kiln It with Batch of NC Pottery and Cherokee Related Materials. “Thanks to our newest partner, the North Carolina Pottery Center, a batch containing photographs, slides, postcards, scrapbooks, and more that highlight the beauty of the Cherokee Indian Reservation and surrounding area along with North Carolina’s rich pottery tradition is now available online.”
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Florida State University: FSU archaeologists find preservation of cultural heritage sites plays key role in coastal community resilience. “In a new study, FSU archaeologists Jayur Madhusudan Mehta and Mark D. McCoy in the Department of Anthropology argue that current coastal management efforts overlook key cultural sites, putting both ecosystems and heritage at risk. Their research shows that […]
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Florida State University: FSU archaeologists find preservation of cultural heritage sites plays key role in coastal community resilience. “In a new study, FSU archaeologists Jayur Madhusudan Mehta and Mark D. McCoy in the Department of Anthropology argue that current coastal management efforts overlook key cultural sites, putting both ecosystems and heritage at risk. Their research shows that […]
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Eastern Agricultural Complex (Phytogeography 🌱)
The Eastern Agricultural Complex in the woodlands of eastern North America was one of about 10 independent centers of plant domestication in the pre-historic world. Incipient agriculture dates back to about 5300 BCE. By about 1800 BCE the Native Americans of the woodlands were cultivating seve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Agricultural_Complex
#EasternAgriculturalComplex #Phytogeography #NativeAmericanCulture #PreColumbianAgriculture
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Rice University: Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories. “Generations of silence are giving way to spoken truth through a new project at Rice University. In collaboration with the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP), a nonprofit founded by Lipan Apache leader Lucille Contreras to restore Indigenous foodways and culture, Rice’s Weston Twardowski and a […]
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Eastern Agricultural Complex (Phytogeography 🌱)
The Eastern Agricultural Complex in the woodlands of eastern North America was one of about 10 independent centers of plant domestication in the pre-historic world. Incipient agriculture dates back to about 5300 BCE. By about 1800 BCE the Native Americans of the woodlands were cultivat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Agricultural_Complex
#EasternAgriculturalComplex #Agronomy #Phytogeography #NativeAmericanCulture #PrehistoricAgriculture
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Found in my RSS feeds: Dispossessions in the Americas. “Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of the Americas have been dispossessed of their territories, bodies, and cultural heritage for centuries. Our site allows you to access art, maps, narratives, podcasts, storymaps, films, curricula, and more. Here, you can learn not only about histories of dispossession but also about ongoing […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/29/dispossessions-in-the-americas/
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#PortlandME #ChildrensMuseum loses federal grant intended for #WabanakiHistory programs
by Gillian Graham, Portland Press Herald, Maine
Sat, April 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM EDT"The Trump administration has terminated a nearly $250,000 grant the Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine was using for programs about #Wabanaki culture and history.
"The Portland museum was awarded the money last year from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and was already deep in the process of developing a project that includes programs for schoolchildren and other visitors, curriculum support for teachers and a play adapted from a children's book.
"Then an email arrived late Wednesday night notifying Executive Director Julie Butcher Pezzino that the grant has been terminated, casting uncertainty on how the nonprofit organization will pay for the project.
" 'It sort of feels like the rug was pulled out from under us in the middle of an important project,' she said. 'It's pretty brutal. It's a big loss in promised funds for an organization like ours.'
"The children's museum is among the many #museums, #libraries and other organizations across the country that are now scrambling to deal with the loss of funding they depended on to operate.
"President Donald #Trump signed an executive order declaring the Institute of Museum and Library Services [#IMLS], the primary federal support for U.S. libraries and museums, 'unnecessary' and vowing to eliminate or nearly eliminate it. Weeks later, he placed the federal agency's entire staff on a 90-day leave.
"This week, the #MaineStateLibrary laid off 13 staff members — nearly one-third of its staff — and closed for two weeks to restructure its operations because its funding from #IMLS is indefinitely suspended, according to State Librarian #LoriFisher.
"Maine is among more than 20 states suing the federal government over its attempt to shutter IMLS. That suit also challenges Trump's targeting of the Minority Business Development Agency and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
"The IMLS last year awarded $266.7 million in grants, research and policy development to museums, libraries and related organizations.
"The children's museum was awarded the $224,143 Museums for America grant in August, the first time in two decades it had received a grant from the IMLS.
"The museum had already received a $40,000 reimbursement from the grant funding and had requested another $15,000 reimbursement. But that second reimbursement never came and with Trump's comments about eliminating the agency, the museum staff and board were worried about the funding even before it was canceled.
" 'We had some concerns and suspicions, given the news and the termination of all the staff members at IMLS,' Butcher Pezzino said. 'That didn't feel like it would bode well.'"
Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/childrens-museum-loses-federal-grant-080600799.html#CulturalErasure #TrumpIsABully #USPol #NativeAmericanCulture #WabanakiConfederacy #MaineFirstNations #History #ErasingHistory
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American Bar Association: Hot Topics in Land Use Law: Executive Order Impact on Historic Sites, Sacred Places and Cultural Landscapes. “[Marion] Werkheiser is a Washington, DC-based attorney specializing in heritage preservation and indigenous heritage will discuss the ramifications of Trump’s January 25, 2025 Executive Order Declaring a National Energy Emergency (EO 14156) on the […]
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DigitalNC: New Primary Source Set on Native Americans in NC, 1900 to the Present. “DigitalNC is excited to introduce a new primary source teaching set on Native Americans in North Carolina. While Native Americans have long inhabited the land that now makes up North Carolina, this set focuses on the group’s history from 1900 to the present day.”
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This 1884 #Ethnology study on the "Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona" by John Gregory Bourke, here in a reproduction edition of 1962, details the customs of the #Hopi nation and is interesting for #historians of #NativeAmericanCulture & 19th c #AmericanStudies scholars
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=111231418