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Smithsonian Voices

The Smithsonian Institution has hundreds of scholars, researchers and curators, each with an amazing story to tell about their work, their quests and their passions. Here is a sampling of the unique voices that make up the chorus of ideas at the Institution.

Native artists sharing experiences and their thoughts on design and inspiration. From left: Fashion and textile historian Regan Loggans, fashion designer Patricia Michaels, fashion designer Niio Perkins, fashion designer and multimedia artist Loren Aragon, artist and apparel designer Jared Yazzie, fashion model Jade Willoughby, and editorial hair stylist Amy Farid.
National Museum of the American Indian

Makers + Mentors: Hands-on with leaders of Native fashion

June 16th, 2017, 8:55AM
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Ginkgo biloba leaves could be the key to reconstructing past changes in carbon dioxide and climate (Rich Barclay, Smithsonian).
National Museum of Natural History

Can You Help Us Clear The Fossil Air?

June 8th, 2017, 3:04PM
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Visitors to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., viewing the Removal Act of 1830. Photo for the National Archives by Jessica Deibert
National Museum of the American Indian

Thinking about the Indian Removal Act, at the National Archives Museum and National Museum of the American Indian

June 6th, 2017, 9:04AM
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A 1948 Indian Chief motorcycle, a loan from the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, is on view in the atrium of the museum. When Americans opens in the fall, the motorcycle will be moved to the exhibition gallery.
National Museum of the American Indian

The exhibition Americans, opening in October, previews with a 1948 Indian Chief motorcycle

May 26th, 2017, 10:47AM
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Before its residence at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, this pressed plant (Cyananthus macrocalyx subspecies spathulifolius) was housed at London's Natural History Museum where it survived a bombing during World War II (Photo Credit: Ingrid P. Lin, Smithsonian).
National Museum of Natural History

Are Pressed Plants Windows Into World History?

May 19th, 2017, 11:35AM
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Poet and spoken word artist Autumn White Eyes. (Angel White Eyes for Red Cloud School)
National Museum of the American Indian

Writing as Cathartic Practice and with Intention toward the Audience: Autumn White Eyes on Poetry

April 30th, 2017, 12:47PM
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Will the Blue Marble Stay Blue? This famous Earth photo, known as The Blue Marble, was taken on December 7, 1972 by astronauts on the Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned lunar mission that provided humans with such an opportunity. Beautiful and fragile, the Blue Marble became a symbol of the environmental movement and part of the official Earth Day flag (Photo credit: NASA).
National Museum of Natural History

This Earth Day, the Planet’s Health is Your Health

April 19th, 2017, 1:41PM
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Each species of tinamou—a nearly-flightless bird from South and Central America—lays a different color of glossy egg. The males build the nest and incubate the eggs, while the females nest-hop, laying eggs in multiple nests. Visit our #ObjectsofWonder exhibit to see the eggs of tinamous and other bird species (Photo Credit: Paul Fetters for the Smithsonian).
National Museum of Natural History

This Easter, Forget Everything You Know About the Egg Hunt

April 14th, 2017, 11:41AM
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The famous engraving of Pocahontas made by Simon van de Passe (1595–1647) mirrors the Renold Elstrack (1570–1625 or after) engraving of Queen Elizabeth—and the 31 other engravings of British sovereigns published in 1618 in
National Museum of the American Indian

Marking the 400th Anniversary of Pocahontas's Death

April 3rd, 2017, 3:00PM
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Gustav Sohon (1825–1903), Arrival of the Nez Perce at the Walla Walla Treaty Council, May 18, 1855. (Washington State Historical Society)
National Museum of the American Indian

The Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854

March 23rd, 2017, 1:01PM
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