In honor of Native American Heritage Month, check out these exhibitions, articles, books, podcasts, and more, from across geographies. Find our previous Resources editions here.
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Exhibitions
Queering Indigeneity
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest. On view through August 16, 2026
Encoded: An Indigenous AR Intervention at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Launching on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, seventeen Indigenous artists from across North America installed their own exhibition in a takeover of the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as it ended its centennial year. The exhibition was unsanctioned. The Met did not know it was coming. Ongoing
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language
Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Rooted in intergenerational knowledge, Dyani White Hawk’s art centers on connection—between one another, past and present, earth and sky. By foregrounding Lakota forms and motifs, she challenges prevailing histories and practices surrounding abstract art. Featuring multimedia paintings, sculpture, video, and more, Love Language gathers 15 years of the artist’s work in this major survey. On view through February 15, 2026
Articles
Susan Du, “Dakota community leads reclamation of land near St. Anthony Falls for traditional use”
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Owámniyomni Okhódayapi, formerly Friends of the Falls, selected an Indigenous-led design team for a multiyear ecological restoration of 5 acres of federal land in downtown Minneapolis.
Melissa Olson, “Ojibwe jingle dress brings education, healing to the State Fair”
MPR News
Regalia made by Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe elder Anita Lovelace, with the help of her daughters and dozens of community members, educated Minnesota State Fair goers about violence experienced by Indigenous people across the state.
Dan Stockman, “In act of reparation, Franciscan sisters return land to Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin”
Global Sisters Report
The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have sold their spirituality center to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. This is the first Catholic institution to return land to a Tribal Nation in the name of reparations for colonialism and residential boarding schools, according to officials involved in the sale.
Madeline de Figueiredo, “Navajo Nation Reclaims Narratives Through Tribal Education”
The Daily Yonder
Since January, the Trump administration has threatened funding for tribal colleges, erased Navajo history, and proposed cuts to tribal housing programs. But amid these attacks, the Navajo Nation is charting a different path, one that prioritizes cultural preservation, education sovereignty, and long-term investment in its community. From the development of a new textbook to record-breaking enrollments in Diné Studies programs, the Navajo Nation has prioritized education at every level with a sharp focus on history, language, identity, and generational knowledge.
Books & Publications
Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life
Ed. Alina Pete (Iron Circus Comics, 2024)
First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it’s usually portrayed. Featuring work from Spillway Fellow Nipinet Landsem!
Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance
Ed. Candice Hopkins (Dancing Fox Presses, 2025)
This publication traces a lineage of performance as a site of resistance, collectivity, and self-determination. This 560-page compendium features newly commissioned essays by Hopkins, asinnajaq, and Dylan Robinson; oral-history interviews with G. Peter Jemison, Rebecca Belmore, Spiderwoman Theater, and Theo Jean Cuthand; reprints of 20 significant essays and texts since 1969; and new contributions from artists and scholars across generations.
Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
Ashley Cordes (MIT Press, 2025)
This book follows dynamic stories of currency as a meaning-making communication technology. Settler economies regard currency as their own invention, casting Indigenous systems of value, exchange, and data stewardship as incompatible with contemporary markets. In this book, Ashley Cordes refutes such claims and describes a long history of Indigenous innovation in currencies, including wampum, dentalium, beads, and, more recently, the cryptocurrency MazaCoin. A relevant further read if you’ve listened to our recent podcast with Autumn Cavender!
Bulbancha is still a place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans
Bulbancha Is Still a Place (POC Zine Project, 2019)
This publication exists as a voice and witness to the original and continued presence of Indigenous People in Bulbancha, an area colonial invaders have unsuccessfully attempted to rename “New Orleans.” The zine celebrates Indigeneity in its multiple forms, including mixed ethnicity populations such as Latinx and Louisiana Creole communities, and believes that as long as the name “Bulbancha” is used, the area has not been completely colonized. Learn more in this interview with “Contributing Editor-Who’s-Not-a-Chief ” Dr. Jeffery U. Darensbourg
Film & Video
Warrior Women
Dir. Christina D. King & Elizabeth A. Castle (2018)
In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation and survival as a community of extended families. Warrior Women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists’ children - including her daughter Marcy - into the “We Will Remember” Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values.
Sacred Storm Buffalo
Landback for the People (NDN Podcasts, 2025)
Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO & Founder, sits down with Sacred Storm Buffalo, a community-rooted and culturally grounded workforce development enterprise of the nonprofit Wambli Ska Okolakiciye, to talk about their work, the importance of investing into community-led enterprises, and how the restoration of buffalo back into community is land back.
ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (Dadiwonisi / We Will Speak)
ᎤᎶᎩᎳ ᏛᎩ/Schon Duncan & Michael McDermit (2023)
This feature-length documentary collaboration chronicles the efforts of Cherokee activists, artists, & educators fighting to save the Cherokee language. The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity, yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2019.
Music & Sound
Fred Nez Keams
Fred Nez Keams is a Diné flute maker. He was born on a reservation in Arizona and grew up in New Mexico. Today, he lives in Mercer County, Kentucky, where he’s been playing and making Native American flutes consistently for nearly 20 years. Learn more in this article from WEKU
Pamyua
Pamyua is an Inuit-soul musical group that blends Yup’ik culture with influences from around the world. They are proud to represent their ancestors, their history, and their people through music and dance.
Vincent Neil Emerson, “Little Wolf’s Invincible Yellow Medicine Paint”
Vincent Neil Emerson is a Choctaw-Apache singer-songwriter, who was born in East Texas and has spent most of his life moving around the state. This final song on his album Golden Crystal Kingdom (2023) shares the story of a medicine man who motivated warriors going to battle against white men by convincing them the yellow paint he covered them in would make them immune to arrows, bullets, and any other weaponry.
Podcast & Radio
“The Appalachian Rekindling Project Is Restoring Indigenous Relationships With the Land”
Living Traditions / The Daily Yonder (2025)
On the Kentucky-Virginia border, the Appalachian Rekindling Project is helping Indigenous people reconnect with the practice of seed saving on ancestral land. Learn more about them at appalachianrekindlingproject.org
Beyond the Art
KOSU
This podcast is hosted by furniture designer Cray Bauxmont-Flynn (Cherokee and Delaware) alongside artist Joe Williams (Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ Dakota), and journeys into the diverse voices and roles within the Native American art world. Together, they amplify the perspectives of Native artists and cultural bearers, exploring the profound impact of Indigenous art and culture on a global scale. Each episode is a celebration of creativity and heritage, connecting listeners with the vibrant spirit of Native American artistic expression.
Rematriated Voices
WCNY/PBS
Rematriated Voices with Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida) is a groundbreaking talk show to empower truth, reclaim democracy, and live in balance with Mother Earth. Grounded in Haudenosaunee principles, Rematriated Voices invites viewers and listeners to consider their answer to one of the most common Haudenosaunee greetings, “Are you at peace?”
From Art of the Rural & 5 Plain Questions
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