Winter 2020 | NMAI Magazine

Vol. 21 No. 4

Winter 2020

DIGITAL EDITION

American Indian magazine Winter 2020 cover featuring a Tlingit hat with raven face

On the Cover

This cedar woven crest hat features the painted face of a Raven, one of the animals that represent the two moieties that balance the Tlingit world. On the hat’s reverse is the face of a whale, from which the Raven is said to be bursting forth. The painting on the hat is by Naak’ushtáa, a Dakhl’aweidí carver. It was repatriated to the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska on behalf of the Tlex’ L’ooknax.ádi (One Coho) clan in 2014.

“Yaay yikdéi wudikíni yéil s’aaxw” (Raven Flying Out of the Whale Hat); 1850–1875; cedar bark, paint and ermine pelts; 14” x 20” x 5.8” x 4.7”, 17/6251

Articles

Marmot Hat

Art & Culture

Restoring Balance: A Two-Decade Effort Shepherds Dozens of Tlingit Objects Home

Anne Bolen

A two-decade collaboration with Tlingit people in Alaska has returned more than 70 items from Smithsonian collections to clans.

A poster depicting an Indigenous woman (left) and a Black woman (right), holding hands and raising their fists. Type on the poster reads: "Together we rise, resist, reclaim."

Art & Culture

Together We Lift The Sky: yəhaw̓ and Black-Indigenous Artists Advance Social Justice

Anya Montiel

Through art, a collective of Black-Indigenous artists is advancing social justice.

The Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower ship, at sea.

History

Blundering to Plymouth: What the Pilgrims Should Have Known

James Ring Adams

When the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower four centuries ago, they knew far less about the local Indians than the Indians knew about them.

Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino plate food and serve customers at their cafe

Preserving Traditions

Winter Bounty: Indigenous Chefs Sustain Communities Amid a Pandemic

Aaron Levin

Even during a pandemic, Indigenous chefs continue to sustain their communities.

An archival photograph of a small, white woolly dog

Collection Stories

A Woolly Tale: Salish Weavers Once Raised a Now-Extinct Dog for Its Hair

Patricia Jollie

Coast Salish people once used the hair of a now-extinct dog in their weavings. Today, they are reviving their nearly lost art.