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The Indian Arts and Crafts Board, established by Congress in 1935 as part of the US Department of the Interior, has the mission of promoting and protecting Native artists and their work. Knowing the difficulties Native artists face in marketing their work and receiving a fair price for it, the IACB takes a multi-pronged approach […]
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Restoring political, economic and community power to women is a growing movement in today’s world. For Native women it is especially powerful to reassert these rights. In many cases, doing so restores the cultural beliefs of indigenous groups by returning women to their historical place of influence. It’s a place that was usurped by colonialism […]
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The Indigenous Peoples March calls upon leaders, educators, artists and those desiring change to come together and march “to build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities and Nations.”
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Their ancestors migrated to the Canon de San Diego region they still live in today in the thirteenth century. Once there, they built stone fortresses up to four stories high, some with as many as three thousand rooms. To provide for the nearly 30,000 people who called the Jemez Nation home, there were smaller base camps that connected the people to the large pueblos. Jemez people were...
Supporting the arts has taken many forms over the years. Being a patron of an artist has long been a worthy way of showing support. Today, many people who purchase art want to make a statement with how and where they buy. There are some specific ways to do that. Be An Informed Buyer One […]
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