Santa Fe, NM—The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) selected Ira Wilson (Navajo) to serve as its executive director. Wilson, of Albuquerque, brings decades of Native art experience to his new role, which…
Indigenous people have always danced, but they weren’t associated with ballet until the 1940s when Osage ballerina Maria Tallchief rose to prominence as America’s first prima ballerina when famed choreographer George Balanchine formed the…
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — On Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, large areas of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments were opened to mining bids in what a Reuters headline described as a…
(Washington, DC) – According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Native Americans serve in the US military at higher rates per capita than any other ethnic group. That is…
The Standing Rock photograph, Dec. 6, 2015: No Spiritual Surrender, by Tlingit photographer Zoe Urness, has been entered for a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography by World Literature Today, where it appears as the…
Like a lot of people, I found out about the Google Arts & Culture app when my Facebook friends used it to post selfies next to their doppelganger portraits from the world of…