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Jun. 18—The Air Force, Navy and the Southwest Indian Foundation partnered to build a home for a WWII veteran's family. The Southwest Indian Foundation, or SWIF, is a nonprofit focused on ...
The Autry and the Southwest Museum hold the second-largest collection of indigenous art and artifacts in the country, second to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. [2] The Metro A Line stops down the hill from the museum at the Southwest Museum station. About a block from the A Line stop is an entrance on Museum Drive that ...
Agriculture in the Southwest was based on the cultivation of maize, beans, squash and sunflower seeds. [9] The Tepary bean Phaseolus acutifolius has been a staple food of Native peoples in the Southwest for thousands of years on account of their tolerance of drought conditions. They require wet soil to germinate but then prefer dry conditions ...
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a public tribal land-grant community college in unincorporated Bernalillo County, New Mexico, [1] with an Albuquerque postal address. [2] It is federally operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and funded through the Bureau of Indian Education , both agencies within the United States ...
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.The college focuses on Native American art.It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), which is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as ...
H.R. 2874 was introduced into the House of Representatives. The bill was entitled "Indian Fish and Wildlife Resource Enhancement Act of 1993." The bill aimed to reaffirm and protect Indian hunting, fishing, and gathering rights and to provide for the conservation, prudent management, enhancement, orderly development and use of the resource.
Tourism is a principal driver of economic development on the Qualla Boundary, the homeland of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and significant funding from the Foundation has strengthened the Tribe's principal cultural attractions, including the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, [6] Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., [7] the Oconaluftee ...
Founded in 2001 at the initiative of US President Bill Clinton following a suggestion from Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee by a group of Indian-Americans responding to the Gujarat earthquake. [7] It has offices in New York City and California, twelve chapters across the U.S., and India operations headquartered in New Delhi. [8]