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January

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Venue:14798 Eureka Drive (S.W. 184 Street), Miami Fl. 33187

The Southern Star Lodge is bringing to South Florida Lakota elder Duane Hollow Horn Bear to share his wisdom and knowledge January 1-3.

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Venue:Upper Room Art Gallery - Las Olas Riverfront | 300 SW 1st Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Unit 129

You are invited to attend a 'Meet the Artists' ribbon-cutting and unveiling of Log. Watch an indigenous Florida dug-out canoe comes to life over the course of a year, in the Upper Room Art Gallery.

February

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus - SIPA 335

All FIU students are welcome to first meeting of the semester of the student club, Global Indigenous Group, GIG. This coming Thursday night, President Adriana Valencia and students will be designing the upcoming student sponsored events and activities. FIU students can officially join through Orgsync.com at: https://orgsync.com/join/71498/global-indigenous-group

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Venue:Seminole Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida

44th Annual Celebration of Native Arts and Culture. FREE EVENT $150k in Intertribal Pow Wow Prizes, Live Music Clothing Contests, Alligator Shows and more! This year events will be held in two (2) venues: the Hard Rock Live arena and outdoors in the Hooter’s parking lot (Seminole Paradise Parking Stage) For Tribal Fair information call: 866-625-5374

THUNDER on the BEACH Powwow 2015

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Venue:Indian River County Fairgrounds | 7955 58th Ave. Vero Beach, Florida

Open and welcoming to everyone. Experience an Intertribal pow-wow with dancers, singers, arts, and food venders. Camping on site. For more information see web page: http://www.thunderonthebeachpowwow.net/

March

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Venue:Billie Swamp Safari

Live battle reenactment of the second Seminole War, Historical and Cultural displays, 1830 Seminole and US Soldier Camps, live music, time period vendors, kid play area, snake and alligator show. Located at Billie Swamp Safari on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation.

GIG Student Club Meeting

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 335

All FIU students are welcome to attend the student club, Global Indigenous Group, GIG. This coming Thursday night, President Adriana Valencia and students will be designing the upcoming student sponsored events and activities. FIU students can officially join through Orgsync.com at: http://indigenous.fiu.edu/students/

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Venue:Deering Estate on Cutler Road, 16701 SW 72 Avenue, Miami, FL 33157

Celebrate Florida's first people, the Paleo Indians. Florida's diverse history and prehistory stretches back over 12,000 years. The Deering Estate in celebration of Florida Archaeology Month, will host its 2015 Archaeology Day with activities and programs for the entire family including educational activities, expert lectures and walking tours of the Estate’s unique natural areas.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GL 220

The Initiative for Latin American & Caribbean Religions is hosting an international interdisciplinary colloquium on "Indigenous Religions and the Building of Multicultural States," where an array of panelist will use religion as the lens of analysis to examine the evolution of cultures.

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Venue:Savannas Recreational Area | 1400 Midway RD. Ft. Pierce

Founded in 1965, The Florida Indian Hobbyist Association (F.I.H.A.) is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the traditions, culture, songs and dances of Native Americans. The F.I.H.A. annual powwow is a family-friendly gathering, boasting a 3-day multinational event featuring leaders and groups from the Seminole, Miccosukee, Lakota Sioux, Kiowa, Cherokee, Ponca and other tribes. Participants and spectators are treated to intertribal dancing, crafts competition, tipi and re-enactment villages

April

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 314

The Global Indigenous Group, a FIU student club, invites you to this 2010 documentary, the world’s first Inuktitut language film taking the viewer “on the land” with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic.

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Venue:Various Off Campus Sites

FIU students and faculty are invited to the Everglades Clean Up & Conservation Group’s 5th Monthly Event will meet at Miccosukee Resort and Gaming to clean the areas off of highway 41 in the Everglades Boat Ramps, Levees, shallow swamp areas.

May

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Venue:Holeyland Florida Everglades

Everglades Conservation & Clean-Up Coalitions 6th Monthly Event!!!!! YOU DONT HAVE TO BRING ANYTHING OTHER THAN YOURSELF. We will be having a free raffle this clean up. And it will be back at HoleyLands. Great events for kids. Teach them young. We will provide food, drinks, garbage bags, cleaning tools, and whatever else is needed thank you for all of your support.

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Venue:333 Tarpon Drive, All Saints Episcopal Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Join us on the banks of the Himmarshee Canal, as members of the Miccosukee & Seminole Tribe paddle a dug-out canoe in this Public Art Performance Piece, winner of the Knight Arts Challenge award.

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Venue:The Miami Circle at Brickell Point

Walk along the confluence of the Miami River and Biscayne Bay and learn about Miami’s history, from the Tequesta people to early pioneers and modern times. View the art and architecture along the walk to the Miami Circle archaeological site.

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Venue:Institute of Maya Studies, Miami Science Museum

with Dr. Eric Taladoire, Professor Emeritus, Archaeology of the Americas Department, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 503

Salvador Quishpe, Ecuadorean Indigenous leader, will speak on the Indigenous movement in Ecuador to secure their rights, and the strategies used by the Ecuadorean government to dismantle the indigenous organizations spearheading the movement. Presented in Spanish with some English translation.

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Venue:Online

The mission of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is to substantially increase the representation of American Indians and Alaskan Natives in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies and careers. Several of their many scholarships have May 31 deadlines.

June

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Venue:The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will present “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire,” the first major bilingual exhibition on one of the greatest civilizations in South America, June 26 through June 1, 2018. It will explore why and to what end the Inka Road was built more than 500 years ago, and how its construction, without the use of metal or iron, the wheel or stock animals to pull heavy loads, stands as one of the greatest engineering feats.

July

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Venue:Holeyland Florida Everglades

KID FRIENDLY EVENT!!! We will provide food, drinks, food and snacks for kids, garbage bags, and cleaning tools.... We will also have many free raffle items for the people that come. HELP US HELP THE EVERGLADES July 11th 3:30 - 7:30 pm.

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Venue:Hard Rock Cafe at the Seminole Hollywood Reservation

This is a free concert with three Native bands that Lee Tiger has pulled together for the "Native Rock Celebration." He says that one purpose is to reduce young people's stereotypes of Indians. The Osceola Brothers are in their 20s and have a hard driving electric guitar sound. The Ted Nelson and the Tee Pee Creeper Band are a Country Rock group. And Lee's band Tiger - Tiger is rock and roll with many songs written by Lee himself.

August

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Venue:Miccosukee Resort & Convention Center, 500 SW 177th Ave, Miami, FL 33194
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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 150

Love The Everglades Movement SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 2015: "THE RIGHTS OF THE WATER".

September

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 216 Multicultural Programs and Services Conference Room

We ask for your presence to brainstorm together regarding FIU Indigenous student recruitment and retention. All self-identifying Indigenous members of our FIU family, and those interested in Indigenous student success, are asked to join us for this ground breaking event. An hour of your time might mean everything to building the environment we want to experience at FIU. Regardless of nation, we are one people with common goals at FIU, lets build our community together.

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Venue:Upper Room Art Gallery in Las Olas Riverfront, 300 SW 1st Ave #123, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

Pedro Zepeda will continue carving a dugout canoe from a Cypress log, at the Upper Room Art Gallery in Las Olas Riverfront. September dates: Monday Sep 7, Tuesday Sept 8, Thursday Sept 17, and Monday Sept 28. Times: approx. 11am-3pm. This is free and open to the public to watch. Visitors are welcomed to take wood scraps as our canoe reaches around the world, in our "Interactive Canoe" project.

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Venue:Palm Coast, Florida

American Foreign Academic Research and Davidson Day School are very proud to present the 9th Annual Maya at the Playa Conference. Over the last eight years, we have had the great privilege to provides Maya archaeology and culture specialists the opportunity to share their ongoing research in a low-key symposia format with offerings for professionals and the general public.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA Building

Meet with Seminole Tribe representatives in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs building first floor foyer, Thursday, September 24 from 3:00 to 4:30, and in a meeting of the FIU student club, the Global Indigenous Group from 4:30 to 5:30 in the Green School first floor Café area.

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Venue:Miccosukee Resort & Gaming 500 S.W. 177th Avenue, Miami, FL 33194

Each September, the fourth Friday of the month is set aside to honor and celebrate all Native Americans, the first Americans to live in the United States. This significant day has grown to a joyful occasion representing the unique way of life of the Miccosukee people and where all Tribes can share their cultures in a festive atmosphere.

October

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 305

“Legacy of Fuchi: Why and How Japanese Ainu Elderly Women Maintain their Roots.” Presentation by Masako Kubato.

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Venue:The Wolfsonian–FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL

FIU Wolfsonian Museum exhibition “Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern,” with objects created by indigenous Amazonian peoples will be on view from October 16 to February 28.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 140

The talk of Indian Country when released in 2014, this full length drama tells a story of mental and physical abuse of boarding school children and its effects on individual lives and Indigenous communities.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, CBC 140

Sia Figiel an Indigenous Samoan novelist, performance poet, and artist. Everyone is welcome to hear Sia Figiel a guest speaker for the course “Global Women’s Writing: Gendered Experiences Across Societies and Cultures” taught by Dr. Michaela Moura-Koçoglu.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 305

FIU N.O.W Presents "The F-Word Forum: Indigenous Women", which will be a discussion on the experiences of indigenous women and the need to talk about them.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC Ballroom

Join the Global Indigenous Forum for it's Third Annual Indigenous Celebration. This year's theme, “Circle of Good Living,” aims to connect and engage with our Indigenous roots and all our relations. Activities include Seminole Flute and Storytelling, Miccosukee Environmental Efforts, Quechua Songs of Harmony by Kuyayky, Japanese Ainu Life Stories, Art, Music and Dance Performances.

November

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Venue:Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation

Friday Nov 6, and Saturday Nov 7, the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum hosts the annual American Indian Arts Celebration (AIAC) on the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum grounds in the Seminole Indian Big Cypress Reservation. The event focuses on the traditional and contemporary arts, dance and music of the Seminole, Southeastern and other Indian tribes from across the country.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, WC 130

The Global Indigenous Forum (GIF) of Florida international University is organizing the Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Symposium: Perspectives on Sea Level Rise by the Tribal Groups of Southern Louisiana. This symposium aims to bring together indigenous peoples, scientists, and other individuals to discuss ideas on how to collaborate on efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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Venue:Collier County Museum, 3331 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34112

Return from Exile: Contemporary Southeastern Indian Art,” features Seminole Jessica Osceola and 17 other Native American artists with ties to the Southeast exhibits at the Collier County Museum in Naples and will run through Jan. 15, 2016. The current issue of the Seminole Tribune reviews this exhibition with the theme removal, return and resilience. All of the artist’s ancestors were forced into exile after the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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Venue:Las Olas Blvd. Fort Lauderdale

Join us for this free, healthy, fun day with the community! Enjoy a leisurely Paddle along the urban treasure of the Himmarshee Canal.. Walk out onto Las Olas Blvd to join the Tribal Arts Project on the Himmarshee Canal Bridge. There you can sample complimentary Noble Juice (Florida Citrus blends) and a Vintage Seminole Patchwork Fashion display. Patchwork designs will also be painted on the road by street artist Carrie Bennett with an interactive area for you to paint as well.

December

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Venue:360 NW 24th Street -Wynwood (Two blocks from Panther Coffee)

The Miccosukee Tribe’s exhibition is the first and only 100% Native American Show in Art Basel history and they are proud to display and exhibit these works to the public during Art Basel week. The show will feature Tomahawk Greyeyes - A Navajo Nation member plus original work by: Stephen Tiger -Miccosukee Tribe and Bunky Echo-Hawk -Pawnee Nation

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Venue:PAN, Performing Arts Network, 13124 W Dixie Hwy, Miami FL

Enjoy the best of world music. This December 13th, 2:00 to 6:00 PM, enjoy native dance, music and food from the Andes and help support the preservation, research and promotion of native cultures through the different projects of kuyayky Foundation. Free Admission . Donations accepted.

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Venue:Miccosukee Indian Village and Cultural Center, Tamiami Trail

From December 26th, 2015 until January 3rd, 2016, come and witness the celebration of our tradition at the Miccosukee Indian Village.