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This conversation focuses on Bodmer’s exceptionally detailed portraits of Omaha, Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, and other Plains nations peoples and the impact of the portraits on their communities.
Gerard Baker, Annika Johnson, Patricia Marroquin Norby, and Scott Manning Stevens
June 16, 2021
Hawai'i-based poet Laurel Nakanishi explores the history of the native ‘ohi‘a lehua plant and extinct mamo bird in an original poem inspired by a traditional Hawaiian quilt.
Laurel Nakanishi
May 25, 2021
A bronze plaque installed on the The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade recognizes the homeland of the Indigenous Lenape diaspora.
Sylvia Yount and Patricia Marroquin Norby
May 12, 2021
Now you can explore a zemí-Taíno deity present in healing ceremonies—at home in augmented reality.
Barbara Bridgers, Scott Geffert, Xue Chen, and Deepa Paulus
May 15, 2020
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Watch episode three of Met Stories with Jodi Archambault.
Jodi Archambault
March 6, 2020
“I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.”
Kent Monkman
December 23, 2019
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Monkman inaugurates The Met’s annual Great Hall Commission with mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People).
Kent Monkman
December 20, 2019
The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Randall Griffey
December 17, 2019
Contemporary Native artists and historians respond to 18th- and 19th-century Euro-American representations of Indigenous subjects in the American Wing’s collection.
September 11, 2019
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Join Francesca and Cyrus as artist Ty Defoe connects art in the Museum with stories and dance from his home.
Ty Defoe
April 5, 2019