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A LENS ON NATIVE AMERICA Centuries of European colonial distortions come under the scrutiny of a new PBS series, Native America, scheduled to air Oct. 23-Nov. 13, 2018.
SOMETHING IS COMING: THE TAÍNO RESURGENCE
18 ABUELAS, ANCESTORS
AND ATABEY Speaking through Taíno spiritual leaders in trances, Puerto Rico’s ancestors repeatedly warned before last year’s devastating hurricanes to take care, algo viene, something is coming. These spiritual phenomena are an important strand of the Taíno resurgence, as descen- dants of the supposedly extinct Caribbean Indigenous peoples recover from the hurricane of European colonialism. This important movement is the focus of a new exhibit Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean at the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian – Smithson- ian in lower Manhattan.
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24 AGUA DULCE IN KISKEYA A back pain brings NMAI veteran Jorge Estevez a life-
changing encounter with the Indigenous and healing traditions of his native Dominican Republic.
REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVED
28 ON THE WESTERN FRONT: TWO
IROQUOIS NURSES IN WORLD WAR I In spite of racial barriers, Indigenous women served with U.S. and Canadian forces in the horrors of the Great War as nurses in military hospitals near the front. Here is the story of two veterans of the Nurse Corps of the Army Medical Department in France during 1918, Cora Elm (Wisconsin Oneida) and Edith Anderson (Grand River Mohawk).
34 INSIDE NMAI: VOICES OF
OUR VETERANS The project that will produce the National Native American Veterans Memorial has another component, a joint effort with the Library of Congress to collect oral histories and historical material, which is well underway.
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A HERO’S PREDICAMENT An ancient ceramic vessel preserves the folklore of the Holy Four and shows the artistic skill of the Indigenous Caribbean peoples centuries before Columbus.
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS CALENDAR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 3
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