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Indigenous Voices of the Americas
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Any descriptive label intended to encompass the talents of brother duo Spencer Battiest and Doc Native falls short.
“As a person who’s Deaf and Indigenous, my goal is to teach interpreters how to sign the way an Indigenous person would sign.”
As Mapuche storytellers, Waikil and Ketrafe fuse their Indigenous backgrounds with their love and passion for contemporary music.
It was especially significant for this group to perform on Canada Day, July 1, with the ambassador of Canada to the United States in attendance.
For Indigenous artists like McGilton, ancestral knowledge can only be maintained with the intention to uphold and use it within Indigenous communities.
For the Pataxó people, body painting reflects the lived constellations of past and present and of human and more-than-human worlds.
Although you can skate alone, its power is in convening and bringing community together.
By the time Boxley was born, Tsimshian traditions involving song, art, dance, and regalia had been outlawed or almost forgotten for nearly a century.
In the Indigenous Maya Mam language, the term awal translates to “the sower.”
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