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Events in Washington, DC
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TOURS, TALKS & LECTURES
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Native Writers Series: William Hensley
Saturday, January 17, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Rasmuson Theater
Book reading, discussion, and book signing. William Iggiagruk Hensley (Inupiaq) was born in Kotzebue, Alaska, about thirty miles above the Arctic Circle. Hensley served four years in the Alaska House of Representatives and six years in the Alaskan State Senate. He also was president of the Alaska Federation of Natives and worked with the NANA Regional Corporation, the United Bank Alaska, the Alaskan Department of Economic Development, and the Alyesha Pipeline Service Company. His autobiography, Fifty Miles from Tomorrow (Farrar , Straus & Giroux, January 2009), recounts his early years growing up in a fishing, hunting, and trapping village to then becoming a leader and tireless advocate for Native Alaskan rights. In partnership with Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books.
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SPECIAL PROGRAMS
"Hok-noth-da?" Reading Program
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Resource Center, Third level
Listen! I have a story to tell
Join us for a twenty-minute Reading Program of books by or about Native American people for student groups (Grades K-4) and families. Presenters include Native staff from the museum.
You may reserve space for students by calling: 202-633-6644 or email: NMAI-GroupReservations@si.edu
"Hok-noth-da?" means "Did you hear?" in the Shawnee language.
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Bunky Echohawk. Photo by David Bernie.
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SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Special Programs for School Groups Live Art ! with Bunky Echo-Hawk
Friday, January 23, 2009, 10:30 a.m.
Rasmuson Theater
Reservations required. Artist Bunky Echo-Hawk (Pawnee/Yakama) will create a painting, 'live' as he engages students in a discussion about Native American issues. Afterwards, students will view the new exhibition, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian. Recommended for grades 9-12. Call to reserve seating at 202-633-6644.
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SPECIAL PROGRAMS
"Hok-noth-da?" Reading Program
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Resource Center, Third level
Listen! I have a story to tell
Join us for a twenty-minute Reading Program of books by or about Native American people for student groups (Grades K-4) and families. Presenters include Native staff from the museum.
You may reserve space for students by calling: 202-633-6644 or email: NMAI-GroupReservations@si.edu
"Hok-noth-da?" means "Did you hear?" in the Shawnee language.
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TOURS, TALKS & LECTURES
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Native Writers Series: Drew Hayden Taylor
Thursday, February 12, 2009
12 noon, Rasmuson Theater
5:30 p.m., Mitsitam Café (Tickets required)
Book reading, discussion, and book signing. Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibway, Curve Lake First Nations) is a novelist, journalist, playwright and filmmaker. A self-described "contemporary storyteller," he has written 20 books, including the Funny, You Don't Look Like One series about issues affecting Canada's First Nations. He has worked on more than 17 documentaries, most notably "Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew" for the National Film Board of Canada. Taylor served as an editor and contributor to the books, Me Funny and Me Sexy, about Native humor and Native sexuality, respectively.
At noon, Taylor will be discussing his gothic novel for teens, A Night Wanderer (Annick Press, 2007) and other new releases in the Rasmuson Theater. The evening event will be a Valentine's Day themed program for adults. Taylor will discuss Me Sexy in the museum's Mitsitam Native Foods Café with beverages and desserts for purchase. The evening program is free and open to the public but space is limited; advanced tickets are required.
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SPECIAL PROGRAMS
The Power of Chocolate
Saturday, February 14, 2009, 10:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 15, 2009, 10:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.
Various locations throughout the Museum
This year's Power of Chocolate festival will come alive in a colorful celebration of culture, music, dance, art, science, and of course food. The program will explore the rich history and ongoing story of chocolate and the world of cacao and will be comprised of an assortment of programming from the spectacular Peruvian scissor dancers, to demonstrations with artisans like the Guatemalan gourd artists, food demonstrations, to one-on-one interactions with Bolivian cacao growers. Visitors will be able to extend their understanding of chocolate, including its healing, scientific, and medicinal properties, and deepen their understanding of the cultures and communities that have cultivated this valuable crop. Program will also include hands-on activities for families and children.
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PERFORMANCES
Native Storytelling: The ECHO Project
Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:30 a.m. & 12 noon
Saturday, February 21, 2009, 12 noon
Rasmuson Theater
The ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Project returns to the NMAI with a performing arts collaboration. Native artists from Alaska, Hawai'i, and Massachusetts share an original performance piece infused with oral tradition, dance, and music of each of their regions. The 2009 ECHO Performing Arts Festival will be built around the topic of food as survival, community builder, cultural marker, and source of comfort. The performance will consider the ways our cultures and foodways have changed over time and the effects those changes have had on our lives. Presented in partnership with The Peabody Essex Museum, The New Bedford Whaling Museum and Ocean Exporium, The Bishop Museum, The Alaska Native Heritage Center, The Inupiat Heritage Center, and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. For reservations for student groups, please call 202-633-6644 or TTY 202-633-6751.
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DEMONSTRATIONS
Feather Work Demonstration
February 23, 2009February 27, 2009, 10:30 & 11:00 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
Resource Center Classroom, Third level
Dennis Zotigh (Kiowa, Santee Dakota and Ohkay Oweengeh Pueblo) will facilitate Plains Warbonnet Construction. 20 individuals can participate in a hands-on feather making workshop. For reservations for this workshop please call group reservations at 202-633-6644, or email NMAI-GroupReservations@si.edu
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TOURS, TALKS & LECTURES
Spotlight on Native Women: Hattie Kauffman
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Rasmuson Theater
Interview and Discussion. Hattie Kauffman (Nez Perce) is the National News correspondent for The Early Show based in Los Angeles. She is the first Native American journalist to report on a national broadcast. An Emmy Award-winning reporter, Kauffman has covered a variety of subjects from breaking news to features on newsmakers to stories on people and places that don't often make headlines. Prior to joining CBS, she was a reporter for "Good Morning America" from 1987 to 1990. Previously, she was a reporter and anchor at KING-TV in Seattle, Washington. Moderated by Liz Hill (Ojibwe), author and Washington, D.C. public relations consultant. In celebration of Women's History Month.
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TOURS, TALKS & LECTURES
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Native Writers Series: Paul Chaat Smith
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Rasmuson Theater
Book reading and book signing. Writer and critic Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) has been regarded as "one of the decade's leading voices on issues of American Indian art, identity, mass culture, and politics." He is the co-author with Robert Warrior of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. Smith joined the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee at the age of nineteen and later became the founding editor of the American Indian Movement's Treaty Council News. His latest book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (University of Minnesota Press, April 2009), is a memoir and commentary about the representation of American Indians in the media and pop culture. Currently Smith is an associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Honoring Native Community and Living World Celebrating Our Landscape
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:00 a.m.3:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 26, 2009, 11:00 a.m.3:00 p.m.
Various locations thoughout the museum
Celebrate the museum's landscape, inside and out. Learn how NMAI's cropland, meadow, wetland, and woodland habitats honor the Native communities of the Chesapeake. Discover some ways in which Native people used the resources in this environment and showed respect for them as well. Activities include cooking demonstrations, hands-on activities, planting traditions, storytelling, and films. Venues will be located throughout the museum.
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PERFORMANCES
Children's Cabaret Concert: The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito
Friday, May 1, 2009, 10:30 a.m. and 12 noon
Saturday, May 2, 2009, 12 noon
Rasmuson Theater
The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito by Canadian playwright, novelist and children's author, Tomson Highway (Cree) is a one-woman show featuring Canadian singer and actor, Patricia Cano, who tells the life story of a young mosquito from northern Manitoba named Mary Jane, who also happens to be the only mosquito in the history of the world born without wings! Can she survive? Come to find out and see her sing her heart out! Audiences are given Mary-Jane's Sing-Along Song Book, which includes adaptation of children's songs often with Cree lyrics incorporated.
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PERFORMANCES
Native Theater: The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu By Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Native Hawaiian /Samoan)
Friday, May 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Rasmuson Theater
Set in Hawaii during the early 19th Century, this poignant piece explores the complex relationships amongst Christian missionaries and indigenous women forty years after the islands' first contact with the West. Honolulu-based writer Victoria Kneubuhl is a recipient of the prestigious Hawai`i Award for Literature. There will be a brief audience discussion with the playwright after the Saturday matinee. Seats are limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
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TOURS, TALKS & LECTURES
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Native Writers Series: Victoria Kneubuhl
Sunday, May 17, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Rasmuson Theater
Book reading, discussion, and book signing. Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Native Hawaiian) lives and works in Honolulu. She has a master's degree in Drama and Theater from the University of Hawai'i and has produced twelve plays, several of which have toured to Britain, America, the Pacific, and Asia. Her recent publications include Hawai'i Nei, an anthology of three plays, and Murder Casts a Shadow, a murder mystery set in 1930s Honolulu. She is a recipient of the Hawai`i Award for Literature.
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