Native American Heritage Month

Here are a few online opportunities for learning, connecting, supporting.

Native American Heritage Month resources from the American Writers Museum.

Gather (2020) - GATHER follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.

Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages (2025) - A look inside Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change. With the Howard Center at ASU, FRONTLINE examines why communities are relocating and why they’re struggling to preserve their traditions.

Native Nations - From Ancient Cities to Today. Tuesday, November 4 at noon. 

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal discusses her new book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, tracing a thousand years of Native history—from the rise of ancient cities and the arrival of Europeans to today’s ongoing fights for sovereignty. Thomas Donnelly, chief scholar of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

Register for link: https://constitutioncenter.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DfZUJxoZQ1u8OCNKXcEdpA#/registration

Menominee Lands and Ways of Knowing, November 6 at Noon. 

Dr. Annie Jones and Jennifer K. Gauthier will share historical and contemporary information about Menominee lands as well as about Menominee knowledge systems that have been passed down for generations. Understanding place and relationships to the environment are at the heart of Menominee ways of knowing. A few guiding systems and their contemporary applications will be shared. Register: https://www.wiwic.org/event-details/native-american-heritage-webinar-series-menominee-lands-and-ways-of-knowing

Menominee Agriculture from Past to Future. Thursday, Nov 13 at Noon. Miranda Wasinawatok will share archaeological insights shaped by both personal experience and academic training to highlight the significance of Menominee agriculture in Wisconsin. While earlier narratives framed ancestral Menominee as primarily hunter-gatherers, archaeological evidence has supported a long-standing agricultural tradition, which Miranda has been fortunate to witness in reshaping understanding. Miranda will discuss how the archaeological record informs strategies for food sovereignty and strengthens connections to ancestral knowledge. Register: https://www.wiwic.org/event-details/native-american-heritage-webinar-series-menominee-agriculture-from-past-to-future

The Menominee Forest - History, Managemamebt and Cultural Burns. Thursday, November 20 at Noon. This presentation explores the techniques the Menominee use today to maintain the health and productivity of the Menominee forest. It will also examine the tribe’s complex history of government interactions, the historical and current use of fire, and past management practices that have shaped the Menominee Forest into what it is today. Come and listen to McKaylee Duquain as she presents on the history of the Menominee forests and the current management of the forests. Register: https://www.wiwic.org/event-details/native-american-heritage-webinar-series-the-menominee-forest/form