Native American Heritage Month - NOVEMBER 2025: NAHM Events

Saturday, November 8, 2025, Noon - 3 pm, 4837 Indiantown Road, Vienna, MD
The event is FREE and Open to the Public
For more information on the site, visit: restorehandsell.org
Students may sign up for lunch and transportation at involved.salisbury.edu.
In celebration of NAHM, join this group outing to the Eastern Shore's very own Handsell Historic Site. Discover local Native American and African American history and culture through a guided tour and immersive living history demonstrations at this nationally registered historic landmark. Located on the site of the Chicone Native American Village, the ancestral homeland of the Eastern Woodland Native People of Delmarva, Handsell offers a unique lens into centuries of layered heritage. Bring your own picnic and enjoy the scenic grounds at your leisure.
Sponsored by the Offices of Inclusion, Access, and Belonging, Student Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion, and Cultural Affairs.

Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM, Fulton Hall 111 - Herman van Apeldoorn Film Center
The event is FREE and Open to the Public
Minner Jones (Lumbee) shares about her practice as a community-based visual artist and public scholar working in collaboration with Baltimore's American Indian community to honor their collective past, present, and future. Minner Jones is an artist and folklorist from Baltimore. Her interdisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in place - usually within the context of the U.S. South - and is focused honoring and celebrating everyday people.
She earned an M.F.A. in community arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland College Park. As an artist, she has exhibited widely and her work is represented in several prominent collections. Her research is being archived as "The Ashley Minner Collection" in the Albin O. Kuhn Library of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she was formerly a Professor of the Practice in teh Department of American Studies and the inaugural director of the minor in public humanities. Prior to her return to private practice, she worked as assistant curator for history and culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
Sponsored by the Offices of Inclusion, Access, and Belonging, Student Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion, Cultural Affairs, the Nabb Center, and Salisbury University Art Galleries.

Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 11 AM to 7 PM
The Baltimore American Indian Center proudly presents the 49th Annual Pow-Wow, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds, Timonium, MD Exhibition Hall.
Admission & Free Parking at the link.
Costs: $10 Adult | $5 Children (4-12) Under 3 free
Grand entry at Noon and 4 pm
The Pow-Wow features Native Vendors, Native Foods, Dance Specials, Cash Prizes.
Northern Host Drum: Warpaint
Southern Host Drum: Zotigh Singers
Emcee: Keith Colston

November 27, 2025 at 12:00 Noon (Fourth Thursday of November)
Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide.

NOTE: Due to the government shutdown, our museums in Washington, DC, and New York are temporarily closed. Programs and events at both locations are canceled. Visit si.edu for updates.

Highlights living traditions of Indigenous peoples. At its core, the program honors contemporary and traditional creative expressions, celebrations, and community connections that feed new possibilities for Indigenous futures. The program is co-presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Park Service.

The exhibition features photo essays by Native photojournalists Donovan Quintero, Tailyr Irvine, and Russel Albert Daniels. Each photographer explores an issue that is of deep personal interest and that touches the lives of Native people in a specific community.
Quintero’s essay reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Navajo Nation, capturing how individuals, families, healthcare workers, and officials have responded to the pandemic. Irvine’s essay delves into the legacy of US government regulations impacting Native Americans’ most personal decisions, including with whom they have children. Daniels’ essay explores the historical complexities shaping a 266-year-old Indigenous/Hispanic community’s sense of self and genesis in violence, slavery, and survival. These works provide insights into contemporary Native life and nuanced perspectives on an American experience that is largely invisible to mainstream society.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian brings its annual This poignant exhibition tells personal stories of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Native veterans who have served in the armed forces of the United States—often in extraordinary numbers—since the American Revolution. For some, the Indigenous commitment to the U.S. military doesn’t make sense. Why would Native people serve a country that overran their homelands, suppressed their cultures, and confined them to reservations? Why We Serve brings long overdue recognition to the Native veterans who have served their country selflessly and with honor for more than 250 years.