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Beyond Art: Respecting and Protecting the Sacred

Many beings and cultural items are deemed by Native American tribes to be too sacred for public viewing. Even reproductions of these items can carry the power of the original. How does one know what these items are and how does one start to learn protocols about Sacred Beings and items? What should...

Catherine Walden

Charlottesville Indigenous Art Takeover 2024

This spring, gallery walls throughout Charlottesville are being hung with Indigenous art from Australia and Oceania. Why? Because Charlottesville boasts the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to it. Indigenous artists use art to express the power and beauty of their culture, across...

Contemporary Mopan Maya

Prof. Pio Saqui (Mopan), University of Belize Contemporary Mopan Maya: Language, culture, and integration in the developing nation of Belize Mopan Maya is a group of lowland Maya that still practices their traditional way of life, closely tied to shifting agriculture. Oral transmission of...

Conversation and Breakfast with the Artists - First Nation Australia

Get an exclusive first-look and engage in enriching discussions at our special exhibition preview of First Nation Australia: Contemporary Artists from Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, featuring visiting artists from the distinguished Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre. Delve into a fascinating...

Curriculum

Indigenous knowledge, practices, belief systems, and ways of being in the world move within and across humanistic, social scientific, and scientific divides. More than just a cross-disciplinary field, Indigenous Studies is a methodological framework that asks the fundamental question “Where are we?”...