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The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s Language Vitality Initiative and the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) are launching a collaborative learning series on language reclamation topics for ANA grantees. The goal of the learning series is to strengthen and empower our Native communities’ ability to reclaim their Native languages by creating a community of Native language practitioners. Language Vitality Initiative’s Language Reclamation Landscapes is a series of eight 2-hour visits on critical topics in language reclamation. The series takes place on Zoom and is designed to create collaborative learning through facilitated dialogue with other ANA recipients, Smithsonian staff, and invited experts on various topics. Each discussion features 90 minutes (about 1 and a half hours) of interactive discussions and 30 minutes for networking.

Join us for a film screening and lively conversation about Native art-making and the land. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellows will share firsthand stories of place and belonging as understood through their life’s work as traditional and community-based artists. The NEA National Heritage Fellowships is the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Learn about the diversity of Native stories and practices through the eyes of eight recent recipients.

Teachers select two workshop breakout sessions that include relevant and resource-rich training experiences to support effective use of NMAI-DC exhibitions, American Indian-focused classroom lessons, and resources from Teaching for Change and NMAI. The goal of the Teach-In is to support awareness of the museum’s Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°) national education initiative and its classroom lessons to promote improved teaching about American Indian communities.