Results for "Indians of North America -- History"
Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian
- Date: April 6, 2021
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.
Link Love: 11/25/2016
- Date: November 25, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one
New Archives Resources for Teachers
- Date: November 3, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 9/13/2013
- Date: September 13, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Tichkematse—A Great Favorite at the Smithsonian
- Date: November 25, 2021
- Description: A forerunner of today’s efforts to decolonize and Indigenize American museums, Tichkematse was one of the first Native American employees at the Smithsonian Institution. His work with natural history and anthropological collections continue to inspire Native and non-Native museum professionals nearly 150 years later.
Link Love: 9/19/2014
- Date: September 19, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Blog Post
Snapshots of Transition: Native American Reservation Life in the Early 1900s
- Date: November 17, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="In this photo Reverend James O. Arthur poses on a sand dune at White Sands, New Mexico. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number: N53381."][/caption] This is the first entry in a series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. In this series we will be highlighting photos from the
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Staff Pick from the National Museum of the American Indian
- Date: December 11, 2009
- Description: To mark American Indian Heritage Month this year, staff members from the Photo Archive at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), filled us in on the history of the collections recently made available on the NMAI Collections Search website. As a follow-up, they are sharing their personal favorites from the archive. Today we hear from Lou Stancari,
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rayna Green
- Date: August 5, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Revisiting The Right to Vote
- Date: October 29, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: With the election only days away, we’re taking a look back at The Right to Vote at Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology, 1972–74.
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See Here: 3/7/2011
- Date: March 7, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, The front exhibit case, which was part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit, shows a life group of indigenous people of the Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic
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Telling the Story: Illuminating Native Heritage through Photography
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.