Opening event: Living Earth Festival 2019
• April 15, 2019

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is hosting its annual Living Earth Festival April 26–28 at its museum in Washington, D.C. Living Earth brings together Native innovators and practitioners […]

Special Tour— Native Women Rising, a Women’s History Month Tour of Nation to Nation
• March 18, 2019

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the month of March 1:30–2:30 PM Meet in the Potomac Atrium, First Level Cultural Interpreters from the National Museum of the American Indian lead a […]

Chocolate Festival
• February 3, 2019

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian holds its annual Chocolate Festival in February. From the blossoms of the cacao tree which grows in Mesoamerica, the Maya culture developed […]

Director’s Conversation with Steve Inskeep
• November 6, 2018

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, is also the author of “Jacksonland,” a history of President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the […]

Hopi Tribal Festival
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Saturday, Nov. 17, and Sunday, Nov. 18; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. National Museum of the American Indian, Potomac Atrium, Washington, D.C. The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation located in northeastern […]

Native American Heritage Day: Family Fun Friday
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This celebration of Native American Heritage Day features hands-on activities, “make-and-takes,” and music and interactive dance presentations.

Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series Presented by Georgetown Media Group
• August 27, 2018

Executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 2009 to 2015, Rachel Goslins is director of the Arts and Industries Building, the second-oldest Smithsonian museum on […]

Masters of Hawaiian Music
• August 13, 2018

Performing in a traditional Hawaiian style, the Masters of Hawaiian Music bring “folklore and cultural memory into a performance that…[unfolds] as breezy entertainment” (The New York Times).

Masters of Hawaiian Music
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Performing in a traditional Hawaiian style, the Masters of Hawaiian Music bring “folklore and cultural memory into a performance that…[unfolds] as breezy entertainment” (The New York Times).

First Class: Beginning Mandarin
• August 6, 2018

The Yangguang Chinese Language Club is offering an affordable nine-week beginner’s Chinese language course this fall. The purpose of this program, hosted in Glover Park on Tuesday evenings through Oct. […]