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This week in Indian Nation, there are many occasions for everybody to get pleasure from. From powwows to Indigenous Individuals’s Month celebrations to poetry slams, right here is Native Information On-line’s weekly round-up of arts, tradition, and leisure choices round Indian Nation.
Annual Native American Vacation Market
Collinsville, IL
November 24-25, 2023
Take part for essentially the most distinctive purchasing expertise of the vacations. Assembly the artists from round america which have hand-made these one-of-a-kind gadgets in your treasured gift-giving concepts. This annual occasion will happen on the Gateway Conference Heart opening to the general public at 9:00 a.m. each days. Some are conventional, and a few are modern items delivered to you by artists from the Navajo, Cherokee, Ho-Chunk Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo tribal affiliations, simply to call a number of.
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Native American Heritage Day: Honoring the Jingle Costume Dance
Washington, DC
November 24, 2023
This Native American Heritage Day, be taught in regards to the origin and significance of the jingle gown and Jingle Costume Dance with dancers Misty Solorio (Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation/Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation), Jennifer Night time Chook Miller (Pink River Métis), and Nathan Solorio (Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation/Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation). Performances: 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m. on the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of the American Indian.
Native American Music and Arts Pageant
Tucson, AZ
November 24, 2023
The brainchild of celebrated Yaqui artist Gabriel Ayala, the primary annual Native American Arts and Music Pageant commemorates the cultural affect of Native People in southern Arizona. The pageant might be held, fittingly, the day after Thanksgiving and can showcase a number of famous Native American artists, artisans and musicians. The Native American Artist and Music Pageant will happen on the Lodge Congress plaza from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and can embody meals, distributors, craftsmen, indigenous music, and extra.
Re-thinking Thanksgiving: A Native American Perspective
Hornell, NY
November 25, 2023
This vigorous, content-based presentation will give an outline of the historical past of this very misunderstood vacation. Based mostly on the one main supply doc that chronicles the “First Thanksgiving” and utilizing a quiz-style format, individuals will be taught correct and culturally acceptable details about the English settlers at Plymouth and the Wampanoag, the Native individuals who inhabited that space. This presentation is fitted to all adults and households with kids in 4th grade or larger.
Portland Indigenous Market
Portland, OR
November 24, 2023
Discover creations from Indigenous and Black artists and entrepreneurs on the Portland Indigenous Market. The occasion helps creators by offering barrier-free, culturally respectful areas to develop their small companies and educating the general public about their ancestry.
Native American Heritage Month Celebration Exhibition
Abilene, TX
November 22-23, 2023
The Grace Museum is collaborating with Abilene Christian College’s Introduction to Public Historical past: Deciphering American Pasts course to create month-to-month exhibitions that coincide with completely different cultural heritage months all year long. These exhibitions spotlight the narratives of assorted cultural teams which can be integral to Abilene’s historical past whereas weaving these tales into the broader historic cloth of america.
Cabazon Indio Powwow
Indio, CA
November 24-26, 2023
The fortieth annual celebration consists of Native American dance contests for all ages, hen singing, and drum contests. All kinds of conventional Native American meals, hand-crafted jewellery, dream catchers, and different arts and crafts can even be accessible.
Native American Heritage Poetry & Artwork Slam
New York, NY
November 25, 2023
Be part of us in particular person on the Hamilton Grange Library for a Poetry Slam in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. You may both choose your favourite poem from an Indigenous American author or learn your personal materials.
Native Made Market
Rochester, NY
November 25, 2023
On Small Enterprise Saturday, store native, store small, store “Native Made”. The Native Made Market gathering brings Native creatives, entrepreneurs, and educators from numerous Nations, in addition to activists, advocates, and allies, collectively to immerse of us into Native tradition in an enticing, significant, and impactful means. The market is free and open to the general public and can embody presenters equivalent to storytellers, Perry Floor, and alternatives for visitors to buy Native-made attire and equipment, bead artwork, work, sculptures, and extra.
2023 Annual Native American Feast
Glen Cove, NY
November 26, 2023
Demonstrations & hands-on actions might be ongoing, together with pottery-making, genuine native meals shows with sampling, medicinal plant shows, primitive instruments & artifacts, corn-grinding, face portray with pure rock, utilizing an atlatl, fire-building with out matches & on-site cooking; plus, assist make 12-foot lengthy dugout canoe. Movies on Native American tradition/legends might be proven all through the day.
American Indian Heritage Month Social & Craft Market
Tucson, AZ
November 24, 2023
Expertise the life and historical past of a number of nations on this annual Native American Indian Heritage Month Social and Craft Market occasion to maintain our 10,000-year-old tradition alive for the twenty first century and past. Right here, you will discover genuine art work, crafts, demonstrations of their songs, and dances to broaden your data of American Indian methods. Come for the blessing. Go to the data sales space and store for vacation presents.
Teejop & Past: The Seven Fires Prophecies
Madison, WI
November 28, 2023
Daybreak Moneyhan, an enrolled member of The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, will inform the story of the Seven Fires Prophecies recorded by many Indigenous tribes & elders over many generations. These prophecies inform the story of Turtle Island, masking the previous, current, and future. They communicate of the colonization of this land and warn of the numerous crises we face right now, providing us much-needed info to make our decisions for tomorrow. The Seven Fires Prophecies communicate of the necessity for everybody to come back collectively, reconnect with Mom Earth and one another, and light-weight the eighth and closing fireplace that can result in generations of peace.
Native American Dance and Music
Las Vegas, NV
November 28, 2023
Dance has been the defining factor of Derrick Suwaima Davis’ life. A grasp at maneuvering 5 rattan hoops round his physique, he’s the one grownup seven-time Hoop Dance World Champion. He conveys the Hopi story of creation by means of his hoops — creating intricate patterns whereas maintaining time to the singing and drumming of Ryon Polyquaptewa.
Rejoice Native American Heritage Month
Decorah, IA
November 28, 2023
Take part for a meet and greet and presentation by Invoice Quackenbush of the Ho-Chunk Nation titled, “Ho-Chunk Historical past & Presence in Iowa: The Impartial Grounds,” from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the Dahl Centennial Union, Nobel Room at Luther Faculty.
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