National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has hundreds of scientists, researchers, curators and collection managers who connect people everywhere to life’s unfolding story. Here is a sampling of the unique voices that make up the chorus of ideas at the museum.

Niuam (Comanche) fan with sun and Morning Star designs (detail), ca. 1880. Oklahoma. 2/1617. (Credit: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)

American Indian beliefs about the eclipse

August 21st, 2017, 11:00AM

/ BY Dennis Zotigh

The swearing in of Wilma Mankiller as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Charlie Soap holds the Bible; the others are unidentified. Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation.

Just doing "what I could," Wilma Mankiller changed Native America

August 11th, 2017, 12:00PM

/ BY Sequoia Carrillo

The Q'eswachaka Bridge has been rebuilt continuously since the time of the Inkas. (Doug McMains, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)

Q’eswachaka, the Last Inka Suspension Bridge

August 4th, 2017, 8:13PM

/ BY Allie Plata

The 2016 Arctic sea ice summertime minimum, reached on Sept. 10, is 911,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average minimum sea ice extent, shown here as a gold line (NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/C. Starr).

Can Science Help Policymakers Create the Arctic Policies We Need Right Now?

August 3rd, 2017, 12:42PM

/ BY Alyson H. Fleming & Nicholas D. Pyenson

From left to right: Zack “Doc” Battiest, Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, and Spencer Battiest in the music video

Musician Spencer Battiest talks heritage, motivation, and Standing Rock ahead of museum concerts

August 1st, 2017, 8:45PM

/ BY Sequoia Carrillo

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