These highly accomplished elder ladies of Indian Country each have had a special relationship with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Together they represent some of the many American Indian elders for whom the opening of this museum in 2004 represented a watershed moment in American Indian arts, culture and achievement.

Reaghan Tarbell never set out to be a New Yorker, or a filmmaker, for that matter.

Every other year, the Film + Video Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian begins by selecting 100 films, from shorts as long as five minutes each to feature-length films, to screen during the two-day festival.

The 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York will bring an indigenous hemisphere together from March 31-April 3, at a free festival that celebrates the diversity and expression of contemporary Native filmmaking.

Link Wray and his Ray Men broke into American pop music in 1958 with a loud guitar riff later characterized as the power chord, and a song that made some radio disc jockeys fearful of violence.

Grants for new works of art and art appreciation available from NMAI

Essay contest for American Indian high school students announced

Washington, D.C.—The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will open “R.C. Gorman: Early Prints and Drawings, 1966–1974,” an exhibition of 28 drawings and lithographs by internationally renowned Navajo artist R.C. Gorman from Jan. 13, 2011 to May 1, 2011. The exhibition was originally shown at the National Museum of the American Indian in New [...]

The year 2010 saw the Iroquois lacrosse team capture hearts around the world in its quest to travel on its Haudenosaunee passports, and ended with the U.S. and Canada uplifting hearts by endorsing the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

With influences ranging from jazz to powwow drum, the independent singer-songwriter prepares a new album for 2011