Location: Native Nations

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Minnesota-based Nashke Native Games is breathing new life into dying languages, in the classroom and beyond.

What do games have to do with cultural revitalization? Everything! Jeremy Red Eagle and youth in Lake Traverse Reservation share how it's all connected.

Spending time with the John/Ogemagegedo family on the water, one experiences their connection to place and love for Gichi-wiikwedong (Grand Traverse Bay).

The 10-year-old Lakota language learner shares her hopes for what projects like this could bring in the future.

The tenth annual RedCan Graffiti Jam invites national and international artists to the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Laura Red Eagle created the Indigenous Language Table to offer a judgment-free gathering space for active language practice beyond the classroom.

Willard Malebear Jr. of Iktomi Tattoo in Minneapolis carved his own path as a creative, and is now looking to provide access to art to locals.

One grandfather’s vision about ‘gallons and gallons’ of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara seeds nurtures Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College food sovereignty project.

Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin draw on the intersecting histories and ecologies of the third largest watershed in the world.