Watch events and programs from the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC spanning dance, music, sports, food, and cultural expression.

See photos and articles from the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC. The festival explored living traditions of Indigenous peoples through contemporary and traditional creative expressions, celebrations, and community connections.

Visitors were welcomed to the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which featured the 20th anniversary of the National Museum of the American Indian, by representatives from the Smithsonian, the Department of Interior, and the National Park Service.

Speakers mark the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which declared all Indians born in the United States as citizens of the country.

The 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival marked the founding of the National Museum of the American Indian and honored the Indigenous voices across the Western Hemisphere it has amplified for more than three decades.

To better serve communities and connect them virtually with their cultural belongings, NMAI staff created a dedicated space and refined the museum's methods for facilitation.

Tribal nations are leading the way to self-representation in museums.

A look back at the long-awaited dedication ceremony and celebration weekend of the National Native American Veterans Memorial on the National Mall.

NMAI’s landscape in Washington, D.C., is ripe with plants from Indigenous cultures.

More than 25 years ago, the Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre in Nova Scotia and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian began a partnership that continues today.

More than 500 Mi’kmaw items in the NMAI collection are destined for a new museum in Nova Scotia.

NMAI’s Cultural Resources Center takes on a monumental endeavor to extend the life of thousands of textiles and make them feel more at home.

Chavez maintains her cultural and communal ties while working in Washington DC.

More than 100 items from NMAI’s collection are on view at Oklahoma’s new First Americans Museum, reuniting them with their Native communities after more than a century.

Indigenous people find ways to connect to culture and each other, even far from their communities.