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Chippewa masters demonstrate ancestral art of canoe-building at NMAI

New birchbark canoe is launched in Potomac River, donated to museum

Canoe Builders - Marvin Defoe (right), Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and Jeff Savage (left), Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, confer over the birchbark canoe they were building in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian. Photo credit: Katherine Fogden, of the National Museum of the American Indian.

The completed canoe now stands in the atrium, where the public can view and even touch it.

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Museum’s landscape blossoms into educational role

Insects, birds and human visitors alike are drawn to explore museum’s flourishing native plant collection on the National Mall

Outside the National Museum of the American Indian.
Photo by Hayes P. Lavis, National Museum of the American Indian.

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Photo essay: Outside the National Museum of the American Indian

Insects, birds and human visitors alike are drawn to explore museum’s flourishing native plant collection on the National Mall

Century-old trees shade sculptures by Nora Naranjo-Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo, on the grounds of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In the background, the white U.S. Capitol dome rises on a setting that is both native and blossoming with life. Slightly more than one acre in size, the museum’s landscape is filled with plants that provide food, fiber, dye, wood or the tools of ceremony to Native people of the Washington, D.C., area. Photo by Ernest Amoroso, National Museum of the American Indian.

In the Three Sisters Garden, Native American crops, including corn, beans and squash are planted in mounds. Tomatoes and chilies are planted in the low spots, where the water gathers. Mass plantings of sunflowers and tobacco also grow along the hot southern side of the museum. Photo by Hayes P. Lavis, National Museum of the American Indian.

A squash bloom opens outside the National Museum of the American Indian.
Photo by Hayes P. Lavis, National Museum of the American Indian.

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Other photographs: Halau I Ka Weiku troupe performs in New York

New York—The Halau I Ka Weiku, a troupe of 41 dancers and singers from Hilo, Hawaii, performed at the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York in early August. The troupe is led by Kumu Karl Veto Baker and Michael Lanakila Casupant. It won high honors at the prestigious Merrie Monarch Hula Festival in 2007. About 1,500 spectators crowd the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at One Bowling Green in Manhattan to enjoy the dance.

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