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An all-Native American theatre company, Indian Time Theater, was run out of NACLA and directed by Bruce King. [7] A children's theater workshop brought performing arts to local Native American communities. The center sponsored craft shows and held dance performances and powwows with dancers from across North America. [5]
The center was initiated in the 1990s and previously was named the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. [4] Construction began in 2006, was interrupted in 2012 when state funding ran out, but resumed in 2019, after the responsibility for the museum was transferred from the State of Oklahoma to Oklahoma City. [5] [6]
The Nuui Cunni Native American Intertribal Cultural Center is a 3,150 sq ft (293 m 2) cultural center and museum in Lake Isabella, California. [1] It showcases Native American artifacts and offers free admission. The center is open from 10 AM to 2 PM on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos. In some western states, notably Nevada, there are Native American areas called Indian colonies ...
Classes for the Native American children at the school continued until the school closed on June 6, 1934. The property was transferred by the federal government to the State of Michigan for use by the Michigan Department of Mental Health services. After that, it was called The Mount Pleasant Branch of the Michigan Home and Training School. The ...
Located near Houston, Mississippi, the site is a complex of six conical shaped mounds which were built and in use during the Miller 1 and Miller 2 phases of the Miller culture (100 BCE to 100 CE). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as a site on the Natchez Trace Parkway at milepost 232.4.
Native American children from Nevada and later throughout the West were forced to attend the Stewart Institute up to secondary school age. The initial intent of the school was to eliminate Indian language and culture from the children, to provide them with trade skills, and to make them fully American. Students during the early years were ...
With only a few native speakers remaining, the tribe partnered with the university and contributed $1 million in 2012 to support the language's preservation. [5] The tribe also established the Picayune Rancheria Chukchansi Scholarship at Fresno State to support students with an interest in Native American culture.