WINTER 2022


VOLUME 23


NUMBER 4


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AMERICAN INDIAN


WINTER 2022


Hundreds of Mi’kmaw Items Returning Home


Maple Syrup’s Sticky History


Short Poems That Pop


DEPARTMENTS 6 FROM THE DIRECTOR


8 PERSPECTIVE A tribal historic preservation officer talks about his critical but challenging role.


10 CULTURE KEEPERS The Indigenous origins of maple syrup.


12 EXPRESSIONS Donna Beaver’s Tlingit and Tsimshian cultures


have inspired her powerful poems and imagery. 687


Tracking Canada’s Disappearing Caribou


ON THE COVER Hunter Karl Michelin holds a caribou antler in his community of Nunatsiavut in Labrador, Canada. He is among the Indigenous people who speak about how the loss of the caribou hunt in his province has impacted his culture in the 2022 film “HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou.”


42 COLLECTION STORIES A print of a reindeer sleigh captures a


complicated convergence of histories.


44 EXPLORE THE MUSEUM 46 INSIGHTS


SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WINTER 2022 3


COVER: DAVID BORISH; ABOVE: PHOTO BY FREDERICK JOHNSON, N19821; RIGHT: PHOTO BY NMAI STAFF, “THE STRONG MAN,” LINCOLN WALLACE (TLINGIT/TSIMSHIAN), 1965. 25/8224


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