American Indian Museum
Meet Native Fashion Designer Norma Baker-Flying Horse, Creator of Red Berry Woman
This year, Paris Fashion Week featured her work. "To be a Native American designer showing for the Fashion Week Studio was amazing."
These Haunting Red Dresses Memorialize Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Artist Jaime Black says the REDress Project is an expression of her grief for thousands of Native victims
Who Was the First Woman Depicted on Currency and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
Checking In on the Health and Vigor of the Chesapeake Bay
As clean-up milestones are registered by a recent assessment of the nation’s largest estuary, a Smithsonian geographer drops in on the region
Smithsonian Staffers Scramble to Make Up Time Lost During Government Shutdown
Workers are back, the museums are open, the pandas are well, but officials say the ramifications of the shutdown are far from over
This Artist Reenvisioned Marvel Superheroes in a Traditional Native American Style
Jeffrey Veregge uses formline, more typical of paintings and totem poles, to create a heroic mural
Smithsonian Scholars Pick Their Favorite Books of 2018
Here are eleven titles that intrigued and thrilled Smithsonian's knowledge seekers this year
How an Unremarkable 'Brunch in the Forest' Turned Into the Thanksgiving We Know
A new Sidedoor podcast dives into the holiday's origins
In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty. The U.S. Broke It, and Plains Indian Tribes Are Still Seeking Justice
The American Indian Museum puts the 150-year-old Fort Laramie Treaty on view in its "Nation to Nation" exhibition
The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland
Nearly 400 years after the alleged “sale of Manhattan,” some Lenape strive to reawaken their cultural heritage on the islands where their ancestors thrived
San Francisco's 'Early Days' Statue Is Gone. Now Comes the Work of Activating Real History
The racist sculpture's end comes at a “tipping point for the politics of Native American memory,” says the director of the American Indian Museum
This Culture, Once Believed Extinct, Is Flourishing
A new exhibition explores the cultural heritage of the Taíno, the indigenous people of the Caribbean
Epcot Just Got a New Smithsonian Museum Exhibition
Worlds apart yet sharing so much, the two vacation destinations collaborate to bring scholarship and authenticity to Disney audiences
Meet the Little-Known Math Genius Who Helped America Reach the Stars
It’s time for Mary Golda Ross to be remembered as an aerospace pioneer
Prospects Are Looking Up for This Gulf Coast Tribe Relocating to Higher Ground
As Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles slips away, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe plans community renewal and a museum for their new home
This Innovative Memorial Will Soon Honor Native American Veterans
The National Museum of the American Indian has reached a final decision on which design to implement
Where Did the Aztecs Get Their Turquoise?
New analysis shows the blue-green mineral found in Aztec art was likely mined in Mexico, not the American Southwest as previously believed
How Native Civilizations Innovated to Conquer the Wilderness
A new activity center at the American Indian Museum in NYC sheds light on the original know-how of the Americas
Why the Very First Treaty Between the United States and a Native People Still Resonates Today
The Treaty With the Delawares, signed in 1778, has arrived at the National Museum of the American Indian
How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative
The new exhibition 'Americans' at the National Museum of the American Indian prompts a deeper dive for historic truths
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