EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2017


SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.


WASHINGTON


EXHIBITIONS OUR UNIVERSES: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHAPING OUR WORLD


AS WE GROW: TRADITIONS, TOYS AND GAMES


WINDOW ON COLLECTIONS: MANY HANDS, MANY VOICES


RETURN TO A NATIVE PLACE: ALGONQUIAN PEOPLES OF THE CHESAPEAKE


FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HORACE POOLAW THROUGH JUNE 2017


PATRIOT NATIONS: NATIVE AMERICANS IN OUR NATION’S ARMED FORCES THROUGH JANUARY 2018


THE GREAT INKA ROAD: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE THROUGH JUNE 2020


NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS THROUGH DECEMBER 2021


WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH CONCERT


SOUNDS OF AWARENESS WITH LEANNE SIMPSON AND RADMILLA CODY Saturday, March 4 Performances by Simpson at 12 noon and 3:30 p.m.; Cody at 2 p.m. Potomac Atrium The philosophy that believes silence does not create change is embodied in the musical performances of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nichnaabeg) and Radmilla Cody (Navajo). Through Sounds of Awareness, these Native women tell their stories; Simpson as a First Nations scholar,


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writer, spoken word artist and supporter of the Walking with Our Sisters movement, and Cody as an award-winning recording artist and advocate against domestic violence.


DINNER AND A MOVIE Saturday, March 18 7 p.m. Rasmuson Theater 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice (2016, 76 min.) United States. Melinda Janko. Producer: Michele Ohayon When tribal treasurer Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet) asked questions about missing money from government-managed Indian trust accounts, she never imagined that she would be taking on the world’s most power-


PUBLIC PROGRAMS Radmilla Cody (Navajo).


PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST


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