Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Across the Western Hemisphere, thousands of Indigenous communities are sustaining traditional practices and contributing to a more equitable future. Today, these people and nations define who they are, through their own stories in their own words. 

Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian, the sole program at the 2024 Folklife Festival, aimed to look back and look forward with community members from across North, Central, and South America. 

Twenty years after the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., Indigenous Voices marked this milestone by honoring relationships between communities and the Smithsonian cultivated over many years by including artists and culture bearers who took part in the 2004 museum opening events, other NMAI programs and exhibitions, and previous Folklife Festivals.

The program sought to share the great diversity and unity of Indigenous peoples across the Western hemisphere, involving a broad spectrum of elders and youth, experts and learners, artists and knowledge keepers. A group of 289 participants and presenters representing more than sixty Indigenous communities and nations exemplified regional and cultural diversity, sharing unique histories as well as common threads.  The program animated four themes: Relevance, Representation, Resistance, and Reclamation. Common threads throughout the presentations included Land, Self-governance, Spirituality, Self-expression, and Traditional Knowledge. 

Artists demonstrated many key Indigenous art forms, testifying to the vitality of these essential, if threatened, art forms. Textile weaving, basket weaving, ceramics, wood carving, and body adornment were highlighted by multiple artists from different traditions. Community art forms including muralism, kite making, featherwork, and other creative works were also featured in the demonstration tents spread over three tree panels of the National Mall. 

Music and dance performances highlighted Indigenous languages and diverse styles, from traditional drumming to blues, bird songs to hip hop. Music and dance took place on the Four Directions Stage, Our Voices Stage, and inside the museum in the Potomac Atrium and Rasmuson Theater. Featured Concerts played indoors and outdoors in the evenings. Storytellers performed hourly in the museum's outdoor amphitheater. Native American veterans were highlighted with honor songs and presentation of colors. Significant participation from Native Hawaiian groups culminated in a cultural protocol for the return of the NMAI's cardinal direction stone from Hawaii, Kānepō, celebrated on July 1.  

Tradition-based sports were shared in interactive demonstration-workshops including lacrosse, archery, footraces, skateboarding, arctic games, and tabletop games. Sessions were held at the Games venue, on the lawn or center panel of the National Mall, and at Family Activities. 

Foodways, ecological knowledge, and connections to land and place were explored in Foodways demonstration and in the Kitchen Garden, a teaching garden of native plants that was activated with talks and exchanges.  

Discussion sessions explored cultural, artistic, and political resurgence, and the past and present challenges culture bearers face from colonization to climate change.   

The narrative stage programming also included topical sessions and keynotes identified by NMAI stakeholders as important to the broad picture of Indigenous movements and contemporary issues. Conversations were programmed in multiple venues: the Narrative Stage, Our Voices Stage, and inside the museum in the Rasmuson Theater. Performing artists also took part in narrative and Q&A sessions in the Folklife Studio venue. 

The major partner in the program was the National Museum of the American Indian. Members of the museum's public programs and history and culture teams worked closely on the program development and production. 

Other supporters and contributors included Bank of America, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Ford Motor Company, the Inter-American Foundation, the U.S. Department of State Cultural Heritage Center, the Embassy of Canada to the United States, the Embassy of Chile in Washington, and the Mexican Cultural Institute. Lacrosse activities were supported by Beano Solomon and DeMaurice F. Smith. The program received federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center; the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino; and the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. 

Program Staff

Michelle Delaney, Rebecca Fenton, Shawn Termin,  -- Lead Curators

Cristina Díaz-Carrera,  -- Curator

Pablo Molinero Martinez, Arlene Reiniger,  -- Program Coordinators

Natalie Amador Solis,  -- Latinx Curatorial Assistant

Betty Belanus, Cynthia Benitez, Amalia Córdova, Hali Dardar, James Deutsch, Catherine Gierke, Marjorie Hunt, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Sojin Kim, Hayes Lavis, Mary Linn, Justin Mugits, Christopher Turner, Cynthia Vidaurri,  -- Curatorial Working Group

Andrea Mayorga,  -- Program Assistant

Madeline Armstrong, Bea Barnes, Lili Dowell, Sophia Fedus, Jahaira Galvan, Kamila Galvez Molina, Kailee Hall, Aria Kupperstein, Jillianne Lim, Eloy Neira de la Cadena, Lily Pangelinan, Sitalin Sánchez Acevedo, Antonio Silva, Devon Szczepkowicz, Noelani Talamoni, Gabriella Velasquez,  -- Program Interns

Liliana Caracoza Lopez,  -- Community Engagement Coordinator

Sabrina Lynn Motley,  -- Festival Director

Presenters

Yolanda Alcorta

Gustavo Hinojosa Arango

Betto Arcos

Elaine Bomberry (Anishinaabe/Cayuga, Six Nations of the Grand River (Six Nations))

Gloria Maria Bonilla

Camila Bryce-Laporte

Bert Correa (Taíno)

Cady (Catherine) Gierke

Fernando Gumeta-Gómez

Diana Hendrickson

Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota)

Halena Kapuni-Reynolds (Native Hawaiian)

Demián Ortiz Maciel

Anya Montiel

Mario Vasquez Morillas

Marcia Ostashewski

Christine Panther (Kiowa/Quapaw/Absentee Shawnee)

Amanda Villa Pereira

Michelle Sauve (St. Regis Mohawk Tribe)

Chris Turner

Emily Uruchima (Kichwa Kañari)

Cynthia Vidaurri
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content: Tribal/Nation affiliations listed after individual names were determined in direct consultation with participants, and may differ, based on preference, within participating Tribes/Nations.

Ceremony Leaders

Hālau ʻŌhiʻa, Hawaiʻi lifewaysKekuhi Keali'ikanaka'oleohaililani (Hawai'i Island Pele Clan), Kumu HulaKauila Kealiikanakaoleohaililani (Native HawaiianKe'ala Ostrowski (Native Hawaiian)Kekoa Rosehill (Native Hawaiian)

Native American Women Warriors AssociationHugo Sanchezolmos (Northern Arapaho)Inez Sanchezolmos (Northern Arapaho)Lori Archiquette (Mi'kmaq)Natalie Holt Breen (Abenaki)Nieva M. S. Brock (Higuayagua of the Caribbean/Taíno)Selisha Lossing (Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fort McDermitt Reservation)Trevor Breen

Foodways

Bradley James Dry (Cherokee Nation)

Bricia Lopez (Zapotec, Mexican-American)

Dr. Claudia Serrato (P'urhépecha/Zacateca/Huasteca/Xicana)

InterTribal Buffalo CouncilMikiya Reuther (Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe)Summer Afraid of Hawk (Cheyenne River Lakota)

Nico Albert Williams (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Cherokee Nation)

Robert Kinneen (Tlingit)

Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota)

Wild BeariesCelina Hall (Hoocąk/Narragansett)Elena Terry (Hoocąk/Prairie Band Potawatomi)Thalia Nambo (Hoocąk)Zoe Lea (Hoocąk)

Knowledge Keepers and Speakers

Angela Riley (Potawatomi)

Angelo Baca (Diné/Hopi)

Brenda Child (Red Lake Ojibwe (Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians))

Brett Ramey

Brian Vallo (Acoma Pueblo)

Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta (Mapuche)

Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation)

Brett Ramey (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska)

Patrick Freeland (Muscogee)

Debbie Lavallee (Métis)

Francisco Huichaqueo (Mapuche)

Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway)

GALACTICKayla Jackson (Navajo)Nonabah Sam (Diné Nation/Tetsugeh Oweenge)

Greg Smith

Gina Posey Pratt (Muscogee Creek/Yuchi)

Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne/Arapaho)

Heather Dawn Thompson (Cheyenne River Sioux)

IndiVisiblePenny Gamble-Williams (Chappaquidick Tribe of the Wampanoag Indian Nation)Thunder Williams (Kalinago)

Jacinte Lambert (Red River Métis (Manitoba Metis Federation of St. Laurent))

Johnson Cerda

Kassel Garibay (Mexican)

Kelly Fivekiller Hallman (Cherokee Nation)

Oren Lyons (Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy/Six Nations)

Pablo Millalen Lepin (Mapuche)

Patrick Austin Freeland (Muscogee)

Rex Lyons (Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy/Six Nations)

Unbound (exhibit)Chris Pappan (Osage/Kaw/Cheyenne River Lakota)Dallin Maybee (Seneca/Northern Arapaho)Lauren Good Day (3 Affiliated Tribes)

Keola Awong

Music and Dance

Associação do Povo Indígena Amondawa (Amondawa, Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Land)Amanda Villa Pereira (Amondawa), presenterTambura Amondawa (Amondawa), artistWauto Am Oro Waram (Amondawa), artist

Bird Singers of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla IndiansJohn Preckwinkle III (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians), lead singerAnthony Purnel (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Dakota Galindo (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Diego Jaime (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Elias Adair (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Isabella Dodd (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Jacinda S. Townsend (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Jimmy Gilmore (Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians)Jorge Hernandez (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Makala L. Pete (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Marina Elizondo-Bentiste (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Savana Saubel (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)Shalina Elizondo (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians)

DinéTah Navajo Cultural ProgramShawn Price (Navajo Nation), directorTavish Brown (Navajo), assistant directorRob Felson (Navajo/Irish), managerAzalea Cayaditto (Navajo/Pueblo)Brandon Livingston (Navajo)Devin Warner (Navajo)Jade Largo (Navajo)Karolina Chapo (Navajo Nation)Shanell Benally (Navajo)Vera Brown (Navajo)

Doc Native and Spencer Battiest (Seminole Tribe of Florida)Doc Native (Seminole Tribe of Florida)Spencer Battiest (Seminole Tribe of Florida)Justin Michael AbrahamKevin PhilipsMatt Beach

Git Hoan DancersAlicia Bybee (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit/Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate)Arlie EspinosaBrea James (Nisga'a Nation/Haíɫzaqv Nation)Cedar Gallenbach (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit/Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate)Christy SanidadDarius Sanidad (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit)David A. Boxley (Ts'msyen)David Robert Boxley (Ts'msyen)Dylan Sanidad (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit)Jayden GallenbachJeremiah Yong-Nathan (Tsimshian/Haida)Jerome A. Nathan (Tsimshian/Haida)Joseph GallenbachLeila James (Tsimshian/Tlingit/Haida/Nisga'a/Haíɫzaqv)Michelle Boxley (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit)Nicholas James, Jr. (Tsimshian/Tlingit/Haida/Nisga'a/Haíɫzaqv)Nick James (Tsimshian/Tlingit/Haida)Sage Sanidad (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit)Santana Sanidad (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit)Shiloh Sanidad (Tsimshian/Haida/Tlingit)

Grupo Awal (Maya),  -- marimba musicians

Hālau o Kekuhi (Native Hawaiian)Huihui Kanahele-Mossman, Kumu hulaNalani Kanakaole, Kumu hulaKainoa ThorntonKala Mossman (Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian))Kaua Kanakaʻole-IoaneKekuhi Haililani KanaheleKihaapiʻilani StevensLanihuli KanaheleMāhealani LonoNamelemanukukalaao KaponoNanea VillanuevaNatsumi BarcelonaSig Zane

Kontiwennenha:WiTheresa Bear Fox (Mohawk Nation), composer, singerElizabeth Nanticoke (Kanien'kehá:ka), singerIawentas Nanticoke (Kanien'kehá:ka), singerRaiwate Cook, dancer

MISK'I and K'achamositaEstefanny "MIS'KI" Morales (Aymara and Quechua descendant)Susan "K'achamosita" Meza (Quechua descendant)

Murray Porter and Elaine BomberryElaine Bomberry (Cayuga/Anishinaabe)Murray Porter (Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario), blues musicians

Nadia Larcher (Diaguita Calchaquí), vocals, percussionManu Sija, string instrumentsPablo Marti Gonzalez, percussion

Native Pride DancersAngelo Begay (Navajo), chicken dancer, singerAubrey Roberts (Meskwaki), women's jingle dancerMorningStar Roberts (Choctaw/Taos Pueblo), women's fancy war and shawl dancerOkhish Homma Begay (Navajo/Choctaw/Taos Pueblo), tiny tot fancy war dancerPaan Pai Roberts (Choctaw/Taos Pueblo), women's southern cloth dancerRebecca Roberts (Taos Pueblo), lead dancer, women's jingle dancerRyan Roberts (Meskwaki/Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa), women's jingle dressT'ata Begay (Choctaw/Taos Pueblo), women's fancy shawl dancerTanapo Hoyo Begay (Navajo/Choctaw/Taos Pueblo), tiny tot fancy war dancerTia Alexis Roberts (Narragansett), women's fancy shawl dancer

Nuna DancersColette Topkok (Iñupiaq)Jenny Cuevas (Iñupiaq)London Walker (Mescalero Apache/African-American)Lori Cottee (Yup'ik)Marie Meade (Yup'ik Eskimo)Peter Pilak Griggs (Yup'ik/Sugpiaq)Yaari Walker (St. Lawrence Island Yupik)Kelsey Ciugun Wallace (Yup'ik)Nae Tumulak (Tlingit)Naaqtuuq Robertson (Iñupiaq)

PamyuaChantil Dukart (Tsimshian/Sugpiaq)Ivan KnightOssie Kairaiuak (Yup'ik)Phillip Blanchett (Yup'ik)Qacung (Yup'ik)Tun'aqi Blanchett (Yup'ik)

Pasatono OrquestaRubén Luengas Pérez (Mixteco), artistic director and conductor, bajoquintoEdgar Serralde Mayer (Oaxaqueño), jarana and vocalsEmmanuel Bautista Gonzalez (Oaxaqueño), trumpetFroylan Bautista Gabriel (Zapoteco), baritone and trombonePablo Márquez (Oaxaqueño), percussionPabloMaya Ortega (Mexicano), managerPatricia García López (Oaxaqueña), violinRené González Santillán (Triqui), clarinet and saxophoneRodrigo Pereyra Cruz (Oaxaqueño), violin and vocalsVerónica Acevedo Escamilla (Oaxaqueña), violin

Sara Curruchich (Kaqchikel Maya)Karla Molkovich, bassMoty, percussionSandra Moreno, marimba

Sons of MembertouAustin Christmas (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)Boyd McEwanDaniel Akira StadnickiDarrell Bernard (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)David Meuse (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)George PaulGraham Marshall (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)J.R. Isadore (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)John McEwan (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)Liam Stapleton (Membertou Mi'kmaw Nation/Kuntewiktuk)

The Gaudry BoysDylan Gaudry (Métis Nation, St. Laurent, Manitoba), fiddleKevin Cockle (Norway House Cree Nation), guitarRyan Gaudry (Métis Nation, St. Laurent, Manitoba), drumsZachary Gaudry (Métis Nation, St. Laurent, Manitoba), bass

Wade Fernandez / Apīs-Mahwaew (Menominee Nation), vocals, guitarQuintin Fernandez (Menominee Nation), drums

Waikil and KetrafeCristofer Collio "Ketrafe" (Nación Mapuche), rapper, trutruka playerJaime Cuyanao Venegas "Waikil" (Mapuche), guitarist

Zuni Olla MaidensAshleigh Yamutewa (Zuni Pueblo)Corliss Edaakie-Bobelu (Zuni Pueblo)Juanita Edaakie (Zuni Pueblo)Kourtney Bobelu (Zuni Pueblo)LaShea Harris (Zuni Pueblo)Loretta Beyuka (Zuni Pueblo)Lynisha Dishta (Zuni Pueblo)

Sports and Games

Di'orr Greenwood (Diné), Brice Lyle Bowman (Diné), Samuel David Bowman (Diné), skaters, artists

Haudenosaunee Lacrosse AthletesAndre Shenandoah (Onondaga, Eel Clan)Edward Shenandoah (Mohawk, Wolf Clan)Gahowanens Shenandoah (Onondaga, Eel Clan)Hawhenawdies-Neal Powless (Onondaga, Eel Clan)Shakowi (Oneida, Wolf Clan)

Imilla Skate (Aymara/Quechua), skatersBrenda Mamani Tinta (Aymara descendant)Deysi Tacuri (Aymara and Quechua descendant)Elinor Buitrago Mendez (Quechua descendant)Estefanny Morales (Aymara and Quechua descendant)Fabiola Gonzales Torres (Quechua descendant)Huara Medina Montaño (Quechua descendant)María Belén Fajardo Fernández (Quechua descendant)Susan Meza (Quechua descendant)

Keith Secola, Jr. (Northern Ute/Anishinaabe),  -- skater, artist

Manny "Manny Slays All" Santiago (Taíno),  -- skater

Storytelling

Amy Bruton Bluemel (Chickasaw Nation)

Gene Tagaban/Guuy Yaau (T'akdeintaan Raven, Freshwater Sockeye Clan/Cherokee/Tlingit/Filipino)

Perry Ground (Onondaga Nation, Turtle Clan)

Robert Lewis (Cherokee/Navajo/Apache)

Visual Arts

Abel Aguilar Vásquez (Zapotec, Oaxaca, Mexico),  -- plaster relief artist

Biskakone Greg Johnson (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe)

Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco, weavers, dyersDiana Hendrickson (Quechua/Peruvian-American)Eva Molina (Quechua, Chumbilvicas)Maria Layme (Quechua, Accha Alta)Marina Maza (Quechua, Pitumarca)Martha Quispe (Quechua, Chinchero)Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez (Quechua)

Cornelio V. Campos (Purépecha, Michoacán, Mexico), Emily Pahuamba (Purépecha, Michoacán, Mexico),  -- muralists

Darden Family, basket weaversJohn Paul Darden (Chitimacha)Melissa Darden (Chitimacha)Scarlette Darden (Chitimacha)

David Robert Boxley (Ts'msyen),  -- sculptor

Guate-Maya DCUbaldo Sánchez (Mam Maya)Carlos Lopez SánchezKevin Sánchez

Karina Citlalli Ramírez Juárez (Zapoteca, Oaxaca), ,  -- featherworker

Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo/White Mountain)Isaiah Chinana (Jemez Pueblo/Cherokee)Jesse Chinana (Jemez Pueblo/Cherokee)Michael Chinana (Jemez Pueblo/Cherokee)Tyra Chinana (Jemez Pueblo/Cherokee)

Kelly Church (Ottawa/Potawatomi),  -- black ash basket weaver -- ; Jeff Strand,  -- black ash basket weaver support

Kevin Aspaas (Diné),  -- weaver

Mangyepsa Gyipaayg – Kandi McGilton (Ts'msyen),  -- Annette Island basket weaver

Mujeres de Barro RojoMacrina Mateo Martinez (Zapotec), ceramicist

Pataxó ArtistsAntonia Gonsalvez da Silva/Andwara Pataxó (Pataxó, Aldeia Velha)Gloria Maria Bonilla y Diaz/Grô Mirawê (Pataxó, Aldeia Velha)Valdiran Ferreira Santos/Txatxu Pataxó (Pataxó, Reserva Porto do Boi)

Reyna Hernandez (Ihaŋktoŋwaŋ Nation/Yankton Sioux), Amber Hansen, Sonia Hernandez (Yankton Sioux Tribe (Ihaŋktoŋwaŋ Nation/Yankton Sioux),  -- muralists

Ronni-Leigh Goeman (Onondaga, Eel Clan),  -- basket weaver -- ; Stonehorse Goeman (Tonawanda Seneca, Hawk Clan),  -- sculptor

Taller Ruiz LopezRufina Ruiz Lopez (Zapotec and Mixtec), ceramicist, Aarón Hernández Velasco (Oaxaqueño), ceramicist

Wooshkindein Da.Áat Lily Hope (Tlingit, Raven T'akdeintaan),  -- Chilkat and Ravenstail weaver -- ; Eddie Jones,  -- Chilkat and Ravenstail weaver support

Yagaa Productores de Seda (Yagaa silkweaving cooperative)Gladys Garcia Flores (Zapotec, San Pedro Cajones, Oaxaca), silk weaver, dyerMoisés Martínez Velasco (Zapotec, San Pedro Cajones, Oaxaca), silk weaver, dyer
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content: The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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content: The Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998.

The 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program, "Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian", was co-presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Park Service.

For more information, see Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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content: This collection documents the planning, production, and execution of the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Materials primarily include born digital photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings, as well as notes, production drawings, informational materials, publications, and ephemera. Such materials were created leading up to and during the Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in the featured Nations, before or after the Festival itself.
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