This inquiry lesson provides primary sources, maps, images, and background history to offer teachers and students insight into a little-known but vitally important aspect of one of the most iconic events in American history—the California gold rush. .

Suzan Shown Harjo has helped shape current ideas about cultural representation and respect.

After more than a century, the Klamath River that provides critical salmon habitat will soon flow freely again thanks to tribes that fought for decades to have its dams removed.

Guna biologists and volunteers are working day and night to protect endangered leatherback sea turtles on their nesting beaches in Panama’s coastal village of Armila.

Native Hawaiian Courtney Lazo fights for Maui residents who still do not have housing after devastating wildfires in Lahaina.

A massive quilt created for and by survivors of violence makes a monumental statement.

Canada’s ban on sharing news on social media platforms has cascading impacts on Indigenous communities.

During an internship at NMAI, history major Maddie Henderson sought to learn more about the Indian boarding school era and how forced assimilation has affected cultural practices generations later, including within her own family.

Courts are adopting Native negotiation methods to avoid antagonistic lawsuits.

The migrating monarch butterfly is an intrinsic part of many Indigenous cultures, particularly those who hold Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, yet it may be at risk of disappearing.

The U.S. government took land from the Oglala Lakota people in South Dakota for a World War II bombing range. Eight decades later, this tribe is still left with the perilous task of cleaning it up.

Thirsty Native nations and other residents in the Colorado River Basin are looking for ways to survive a decades-long drought and out-of-date laws in a drastically changing climate.

Native communities are finally being connected to each other and the world through broadband.

The Guna community on Gardi Sugdub in Panama is being forced to relocate as the ocean could swallow the entire island within just decades.

Learn how emerging filmmakers are using film as a force for activism. Program in English with English and Spanish captions. | Programa en inglés con subtítulos en inglés y español.

Through monochromatic imagery, Nīa MacKnight highlights the power of the spirit within times of social unrest.

The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa reclaim more than 28,000 forested acres in Minnesota—just one of the Native nations that have recovered some of their ancestral territories.

A series of events led to the Wounded Knee occupation, one of the most significant being the Trail of Broken Treaties.

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Nagle (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation) explains that tribal sovereignty is the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves.

In part one of this webinar, participants learned about different aspects of sovereignty, including non-political components such as cultural autonomy.

In part two of this webinar, participants heard from museum education staff about ways to teach tribal sovereignty to their students.

During World War II, Japanese troops overtook Attu Island and took its Aleut inhabitants to Japan. The descendants of those prisoners are reuniting and reclaiming their culture.

Action is needed to heal government boarding school survivors.

How achieving language justice is an important step toward social justice.

This virtual symposium explored the hidden stories of enslaved Indigenous peoples, focusing on the legacy of Spanish colonization in the Americas and Asia and its impact on what is now the southwestern United States.

Looking at laws that defend the Indigenous rights of nature.

This workshop series used the museum’s Essential Understandings framework and artworks by contemporary Indigenous women artists to help teachers deepen their knowledge of Indigenous women’s roles and contributions.

Remembering the humanity of Indigenous peoples on International Human Rights Day.

What are land acknowledgments supposed to accomplish and why do we do them? This session for educators explores these questions and strategies to make your land acknowledgment more thoughtful and respectful.

Explore how to teach about land acknowledgments in your classroom or community.

This Indigenous Peoples' Day program highlights youth of blended Black and Native heritage who use art, activism, and policy to advance Black and Indigenous solidarity and affect positive change in their communities.

Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland speaks about the need to have Native voices in the highest U.S. government decision-making offices.

American Indians were among those who fought to have the boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments restored to help protect these precious public and ancestral lands.

Lummi carvers of Washington state carry a totem pole cross-country to the NMAI and U.S. Capitol, stopping at sacred sites in peril.

A conversation with two young Native women who are currently working at local and state levels to make change.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has held onto its land despite encroachment by affluent Hampton residents. Now its sovereignty is coming due.

The birthplace of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy is slowly recovering from a century of pollution.

This symposium draws attention to the pervasive issue of violence against Native women, who suffer disproportionately high levels of rape, domestic violence, and attacks.

Artist Jaime Black (Métis) calls attention to the crisis of violence affecting Native American women through her installation “The REDress Project.”

The REDress installations have provided families of the missing and murdered as well as survivors of violence a place to grieve and heal together.

The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, and the Sisters in Spirit campaign

Elouise Cobell holds the federal government accountable for mismanagement of billions in Indian Trust Funds.