
The Zuni Olla Maidens, 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows, are a venerated dance troupe from Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico, equally well-known for singing, drumming, and their trademark dance balancing pottery on their heads, as well as being an all-female troupe. Photo by Elliot DeBruyn, courtesy of Hypothetical

Participants in the traditional men's dance category at the 2021 Tennessee Indian Education Pow Wow. Photo by Kenneth Purdom, courtesy of the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee

June 2023 grand opening of the Tuba City Entrepreneurship Hub. From left to right: Council Delegate Otto Tso (Diné/Navajo), Change Labs executive director Heather Fleming (Diné/Navajo), Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren (Diné/Navajo), Change Labs co-founder Jessica Stago (Diné/Navajo), Change Labs Board Chair Brett Isaac (Diné/Navajo). Photo by Jesse Wodin

Traditional storyteller Esther Stutzman in a still from the documentary series on the Native people of Oregon. Image by Tim Keenan Burgess, Wisdom of the Elders
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