Issues Background
Spring 2023
Vol. 24 No. 1
Spring 2023
DIGITAL EDITION
Cover of the Spring 2023 issue. 4 female jingle dress dancers stand side-by-side in a field.

On the Cover

Diné jingle dress dancers (left to right) JoAnni Begay, Erin Tapahe, Dion Tapahe and Sunni Begay in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Diné photographer Eugene Tapahe captured this image, “Four Worlds,” in June 2020 as part of the Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project (see page 44).

Articles

Isabel Meadows in a coat with a fur collar stands next to John Peabody Harrington wearing a suit in front of a tree
Perspective
Ancestral Voices from the Archives
Deborah A. Miranda
A California Indigenous woman partners with a Smithsonian ethnologist to immortalize her Rumsen people’s stories.
A father and son holding fishing poles walk down a dock toward a river
Native Knowledge 360°
The Bedrock of the Pamunkey People
Anne Bolen
Teachers learn about the Pamunkey Indian Tribe’s living culture and connection to a river.
The National Museum of the American Indian's garden in bloom in Washington, D.C.
Living Earth
Growing a Diverse Bounty
Aaron Levin
NMAI’s landscape in Washington, D.C., is ripe with plants from Indigenous cultures.
A Shinnecock woman standing in the bay holds up a string draped in kelp
Living Earth
A Sisterhood of the Sea
Teresa Tomassoni

Shinnecock farmers are reviving kelp-growing traditions to restore a Long Island bay.
Portrait of Robert Houle in front of his paintings.
Arts and Cultures
Color and Memory
Alexandra N. Harris

A new NMAI exhibition spotlights the bold, abstract artworks of Saulteaux Anishinaabe artist Robert Houle.
Sky Woman looks at the Celestrial Tree with concern.
Collection Stories
Storytelling in Cyberspace
Rebecca Head Trautmann

Mohawk artist Skawennati’s digital movie presents a futuristic creation story of our world.
Three jingle dress dancers pose on a fallen tree log on the foggy shore.
Insights
A Journey for Hope
Anne Bolen

Diné photographer Eugene Tapahe and the dancers of the Art Heals: Jingle Dress Project have journeyed to national and state parks across the United States to honor their ancestors, bless the land and offer prayers for those in need.
A council member points to a map of recently purchased lands.
Current Affairs
Restoring Lost Lands
Margarita Martín-Hidalgo Birnbaum
The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa reclaim more than 28,000 forested acres in Minnesota—just one of the Native nations that have recovered some of their ancestral territories.
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