Events
Jan (2) | Feb (3) | Mar (5) | Apr (2) | May (6) | Jun (1) | Jul (2) | Aug (1) | Sep (5) | Oct (6) | Nov (4) | Dec (3) |
January
Duane Hollow Horn Bear Event
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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.
Dug-Out Canoe Unveiling
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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
Student Club Meeting
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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
Seminole Tribal Fair and Pow-wow
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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
Big Cypress Shootout, Second Seminole War Reenactment
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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/
Archaeology Day
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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.
Indigenous Religions and the Building of Multicultural States
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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.
FIHA Golden 50th Anniversary Powwow
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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
Film Showing and Discussion | Qapirangajug: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
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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.
Service Project – Everglades Clean-up
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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
Everglades Conservation & Clean-Up Coalitions
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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.
Paddle up the Himmarshee Canal with Miccosukee and Seminole
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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.
Experience the Miami Circle with HistoryMiami Guide
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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.
The Mesoamerican Ballgame and its Architectural Settings. A Three Millennia Tradition
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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.
Ecuador's Constitutional Amendments and Quichua Indigenous Organizations
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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.
AISES Student Scholarship Deadlines
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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
The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
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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
Service Project - Everglades Clean Up #7
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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.
Native Rock Celebration
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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
Love the Everglades Movement
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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
Indigenous Student Recruitment and Retention Meeting
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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.
Canoe Carving in September
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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.
Maya at the Playa Conference
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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.
Internship Opportunities with the Seminole Tribe of Florida
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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.
American Indian Day Celebration by Miccosukee Tribe
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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
Global Indigenous Colloquia
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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.
Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern
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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.
Global Indigenous Cinema "Rhymes for Young Ghouls"
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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.
Indigenous Author Reading: "Women's Lives in the Pacific" by Sia Figiel
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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.
The F-Word Forum: Indigenous Women
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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.
FIU Indigenous Celebration: Circle of Good Living
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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
American Indian Arts Celebration
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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.
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Symposium
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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.
Return from Exile: Contemporary Southeastern Indian Art
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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.
Paddle Up the Himmarshee Canal
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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
The Miccosukee Tribe Presents Art Basel 2015
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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
14th Annual Fund Raising Event for the Kuyayky Foundation
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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.
41st Annual Miccosukee Indian Arts and Crafts Festival
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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.