The day after the Festival, Indigenous participant groups visited the Cultural Resources Center and National Anthropological Archives.
Behind every acanthus leaf and column capital, there is the hand of a craftsperson whose name might be long forgotten but whose work is revered still centuries later.
Any descriptive label intended to encompass the talents of brother duo Spencer Battiest and Doc Native falls short.
Around 20,000 Karen people and other refugees from Burma now live in Minnesota, the largest community of Karen people in the United States.
Hip-hop has provided Bolivian artists a platform for telling personal stories, examining sociopolitical issues, asserting their own cultures, and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Davis’s body, voice, and presence channel histories that were nearly lost—stolen by erasure, whitewashing, and cultural neglect.
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