In the days before graduating from El Reno High School in El Reno, Oklahoma, Jonathan Birdshead was gifted a hand-beaded mortar board to honor his Native American heritage during the ceremony.

The National Capital Region Native American Color Guard, a group of Washington, DC-based Indigenous veterans from communities across the United States, will bring in the colors. Cultural specialist ...

We’re great at talking molecules. We’re less honest about what holds a person together after the breakthrough. Ceremony is the container: elders, songs, prayers, land, kin, language. Strip the ...

WEST AND NORTHWESTERN PART OF IOWA FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, METRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE HAS HOSTED A CULTURAL TRADITION THAT BRINGS NATIVE COMMUNITIES TOGETHER THROUGH DANCE, MUSIC AND STORYTELLING.

Intertribal Dance Singers and dancers perform during the California Native American Nations 56th Annual Native American Day at the State Capitol in 2023. Hector Amezcua The Sacramento Bee Today, on ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Kiowa Black Leggings Warrior Society present the colors to open a wreath-laying ceremony led by Director Cynthia Chavez Lamar at the National ...