Posts Tagged ‘National Museum of the American Indian’

RECIPE: Mitsitam Cafe’s Mexican hot chocolate warms up cool summer nights

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by americanindiannews

Using arbol chiles and dried poblano peppers to season the chocolate, as ancient Mayans and Aztecs did at the time of the conquistadors’ arrival, Chef Hetzler blends the hot with the sweet to make this indigenously inspired drinking chocolate.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Museum ‘painted with light’ for unique portrait

Posted on October 17th, 2009 by americanindiannews

By the glow of 800 flashlights, the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian poses for a magical nighttime photo

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THEATER: Play leaves museum echoing with Hawai’ian historic themes

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by americanindiannews

“The Conversion of Ka’ahumanu” brings the Hawai’ian queen, and her epic political and religious dilemmas, back to life

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FILM: Films by and about Native women, and about the movement of Native peoples across the Americas are among those to screen at 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival

New York—The 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival at ...
PEOPLE: Native filmmakers use eye, experience to winnow entries for Film + Video Festival

New York—Every other year, the Film + Video Festival at ...
CULTURE: Through art, dance, language, Boxleys breathe new life into Tsimshian culture

Kingston, Wash.—David Boxley is putting designs in red paint on ...
HISTORY: Family is foundation of documentary on NYC’s Mohawk ironworker community

New York—Reaghan Tarbell never set out to be a New ...
MUSEUM: Three elders, a century of inspiration

When Maria Hinton was born in 1910, every Oneida family ...
MUSIC: Power source behind Link Wray’s chords: his family

Link Wray and his Ray Men broke into American pop ...

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Recipes

FOOD: Let’s eat: The executive chef of the Mitsitam Cafe whips up a cookbook

Washington, D.C.—Chocolate, chiles, tomatoes, blueberries and corn are just a ...

RECIPE: Mitsitam Cafe buffalo and duck burger

Buffalo and duck burger topped with roasted pepper, Dijonaise sauce ...

RECIPE: Mitsitam Cafe’s Mexican hot chocolate warms up cool summer nights

When the summer sun gives way to cool nights, chef ...

RECIPE: As cherries blossom, a taste of summer

Cherries pair with the earth and sea in this favorite ...

RECIPE: Chocolate’s indigenous history makes spicy tale

Washington—Chocolate is a flavor as old and varied as the ...

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CULTURE: Children step up as culture-bearers

Washington, D.C.—Kelly Church, a weaver of black ash baskets, is ...

EXHIBITION: Quileute separate fact from fiction for ‘Twilight’ fans

Seattle, Wash.—The Seattle Art Museum opened an exhibition of some ...

ART: One man’s interest helps save ancient art

Dennis White, 63, an Ojibwe mathematics scholar from the Lac ...

ARTS: Jungen’s farfetched animals stretch the imagination

Washington—Artist Brian Jungen’s oversized animals have invaded the Smithsonian’s National ...

PEOPLE: Mary G. Ross blazed a trail in the sky as a woman engineer in the space race

When she was 96 years old, Mary Golda Ross asked ...

Music

MUSIC: Nakai expands the language of Native American music

R. Carlos Nakai’s new album “Dancing into Silence,” (with William ...

MUSIC: Sky’s the limit for blues musician Derek Miller

Washington, D.C.—Derek Miller stepped onto an international stage in early ...

MUSIC: Jazz sax in a Native key

New York—Cherokee saxophone player and bandleader Sharel Cassity has a ...

MUSIC: Native American school band rocks the oldies – and the ancients

Ten years ago Kim Cournoyer answered an ad seeking a ...

MUSIC: Roots of the blues go deep into shared Native and African American history

Jimi Hendrix meteorically rose to rock-and-roll fame playing, smashing and ...

People

PEOPLE: Helen Maynor Scheirbeck (1935-2010)

Washington, D.C.—Dr. Helen Maynor Scheirbeck, longtime champion of American Indian civil rights, ...

MOVIES: Big and blue, ‘Avatar’ with Wes Studi comes to DVD

Cherokee movie star Wes Studi is no stranger to standing ...

Movies: Native film star tells of his hero’s journey, on and offscreen

For Wes Studi, playing a character confronting colonial powers while ...

People: Unsung hero has a million books he’d like you to check out

Irving Nelson has had a desk in the director’s office ...

Museum: Seeds of understanding accompany interns into wider fields of work

Washington, D.C.— As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American ...

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