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Third Annual Native American Writer Accelerator Grant Announces Recipients

October 24, 2023

From The Native American Media Alliance – 12 Native American writers received grants to support their careers and future projects. Learn more about them and their work!

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Bailadores de Bronce Celebrate Their Golden Year

October 17, 2023

From South Seattle Emerald (by Agueda Pacheco Flores) – This month, Bailadores de Bronce will celebrate their 50th anniversary with their first-ever performance at Moore Theatre.

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Made There: Yakama artist Bessie Bill weaves traditional wa’paas

August 17, 2023

From Crosscut (by Sarah Hall) – In the Yakima Valley, master weaver Bessie Bill weaves wa’paas to build community and preserve a tribal tradition.

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Seattle’s First-Ever BLASTFEST Celebrates Afrobeats Music and African Cultures

July 27, 2023

From South Seattle Emerald (by Patheresa Wells) – Seattle’s first-ever Afrobeats music festival will be held Saturday, July 29 at Seattle Center!

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Visions of Indigenous Futures

May 22, 2023

From Yes! Magazine (by Breanna Draxler) – The project began with a number: 562. It was the number of federally recognized tribes in the United States when photographer Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) quit her job, packed her camera, and hit the road in 2012 to try to photograph a member of every tribe.

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She Said the Land Called Her Home

February 7, 2023

From Underscore (by Jarrette Werk) – As a kid, Katherine Paul loved traveling with her mother, who spoke at anthropological lectures around the world. This year, the Swinomish tribal citizen is hitting the road once more — to launch her first European tour in support of her third album.

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The Rhapsody Project tunes into cultural heritage and social justice

January 31, 2023

From KNKX Radio (by Robin Lloyd) – Conventional music education often lacks the cultural references that can help students connect to their roots.

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Reciprocity Project Highlights Indigenous Storytelling and Values

January 24, 2023

From South Seattle Emerald (by Victor Simoes) – Reciprocity Project, a series of seven Indigenous-made documentary short films, combines Native American storytelling with climate awareness and other intersectional movements rooted in Indigenous guardianship, social justice, and human rights.

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Balancing Cultures reimagines the family album, revealing unspoken truths in ordinary mid-century Japanese American family photographs

January 21, 2023

From International Examiner (by Paul Mori) – More often than not, there is a deeper meaning behind the smiles in photographs, especially in the age of film when each click of the shutter was so very precious.

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New project spotlights work of modern Indigenous American artists

January 6, 2023

From PBS NewsHour (by Jeffrey Brown and Lena I. Jackson) – Candice Hopkins: There were so many good Native artists working in contemporary art, but they still weren’t getting the big shows. It was a kind of — the beginnings of a kind of national conversation that had been coming actually since the ’60s. But what they needed was […] allies in these large institutions.

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