Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis, and a little Irish) creates video games inspired by her indigenous heritage to help heal intergenerational trauma.

Professor Wesley Thomas and graduate student Sharon Nelson have been key to the program’s inception, relevance, and dramatic growth.

Each year, our understanding of how to juxtapose European classical and traditional Navajo music deepens.

My mother saved 439 letters for each day they were separated, August 1944 through November 1945.

In 1950, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, sixty miles north of Salt Lake City.

The Pocahontas Reframed: Storytellers Film Festival opens November 15 in Richmond, Virginia.

Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles is named for the rainbow flag and the city that makes the group possible.

When Oswaldo Martín immigrated to East Oakland, California, nineteen years ago, no one in his class or neighborhood spoke his language.

Has the tradition changed? Of course. Has it left behind the indigenous roots or the Catholic meaning? Not entirely.

El director emérito de Smithsonian Folkways comparte historias, fotos y videos de su trabajo de campo en Chile, que coincidió con el golpe de estado de Pinochet.