We the people of the land, have been Americans for at least 20,000 years.
Indigenous NYC
Indigenous peoples have a balanced symbiotic relationship with the land almost like guardians of the earth. Killing the people, kills the land; and killing the land kills the people. Preserving Indigenous ways is really self-preservation.
Bulla en el Barrio
Monday, February 24, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Colombian Bullerengue inspired by the Caribbean women’s song and dance tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free African town in the Americas
ADAA The Art Show 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
GALA PREVIEW
Thu-Sun, February 27 – March 1, 2020
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, NYC
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The top U.S. art dealer association’s art fair is showing Argentine, Brazilian, French, Indigenous, Italian, Mexican and Venezuelan artists.
Socrates Annual
Daily
Oct 5, 2019 – Mar 8, 2020
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
Astoria, Queens
The annual exhibition of work by emerging artists created during the park’s summer residency
Pachamama Day
Saturday, August 1, 2020
ANDES
This Indigenous Inca nature festival of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and parts of Chile and Argentina honors Mother Earth to bring a good growing season
Hunter’s Moon
Thursday, October 1, 2020
The first full moon after the Harvest moon rises at sunset
Indigenous People Day
Monday, October 12, 2020
EARTH ~ In the United States, we celebrate our Indigenous heritage on the second Monday in October. Many countries celebrate on October 12.
Native American Heritage Month
November
UNITED STATES ~ We are the first Americans. We have always been here. We are still here from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego.
Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos
Sat-Mon, Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2020
We remember deceased family members on Day of the Dead because you live as long as someone remembers you
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Saturday, December 12, 2020
MEXICO CITY, Mexico ~ There is a pilgrimage of about 10 million people to the basilica that houses the cloak of the Marian apparition who fused Aztec and Spanish traditions into the icon of Mexican identity on December 12, 1531
Las mañanitas a nuestra Virgen de Guadalupe
Fri, December 11, 2020
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
Celebrate the Our Lady of Guadalupe’s birthday with Don Jaime Lucero of Casa Puebla, mariachi and folk dancers
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Some say that New York City’s Indigenous people are gone. But the spirit of the first people has always been here and the spirits of the land, the land of many hills, Mannahatta, will always be here.
Indigenous New York City
New York City was built on Lenape or Delaware land. The Lenape village was in what is now Inwood. The Lenape trading post was at Manhattan’s southern tip under what is now the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Broadway was the trail between the village and trading post. That is why it meanders across Manhattan’s street grid. The sacred elm tree or Council Elm was where Bowling Green Park is today.
Crown of the Andes
Daily
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, NYC
The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
Redhawk Indigenous People Day Pow Wow
Sun-Mon, Oct 13-14, 2019
RANDALLS ISLAND ~ The Redhawk Native American Arts Council’s annual Indigenous People Day pow wow celebration in front of Icahn Stadium in Randall’s Island Park
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
New York City’s leading Mexican folkloric dance organization has a touring company, a dance school and does arts in education programs. This company is so good, they should be on Broadway.
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El Museo del Barrio
Wednesday-Sunday
EAST HARLEM, NYC
Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American art museum and community center
National Museum of the American Indian
Daily
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC
This branch of the Smithsonian presents amazing bilingual exhibitions
FREE
Brooklyn Museum
Wednesday-Sunday
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ NYC’s second biggest museum has good collections of African and Pre-Columbian art. First Saturdays are a Free party.
May Sumak Film Festival 2019
June 14-16, 2019
Friday-Sunday
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador
Edmar Castaneda is a Colombian Jazz virtuoso of the Andean Harp
With special guest Afro-Swiss harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret
LeFrak Concert Hall
Queens College
Flushing, Queens
Sunday, April 15, 2018
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Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy III Wacah Chan’ at El Museo
Saturday, February 6, 2016
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
New York’s Mexican Mayan circus theater tells the story of “Wacah Chan,” the Mayan snake with two faces
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Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy I Soul of the Maya’ at El Museo
December 12, 2015
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
La Virgen de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, makes a surprise appearance on her feast day
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Indigenous Culture
World Chocolate Day
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
UPPER AMAZON
Chocolate, made from cocoa, is native to Colombia and Venezuela, but was domesticated in Guatemala and Mexico. Spanish priests took it to Europe.
Mictlancihuatl
Sat-Mon, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2020
Honor the Aztec goddess of the underworld
Mexican Marigold, Aztec Marigold, Cempasúchil are Day of the Dead flowers
October 31 – November 2
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Mexican Marigolds are a Central American flower with healing powers that attract spirits to visit their families on the Day of the Dead
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Catrina La Calavera Garbancera is the icon of the Day of the Dead
Skull Catrina, by José Guadalupe Posada, makes fun of Indigenous Americans trying to be European. Death teaches that we are all equal.
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Ofrendas are home altars that invite family souls to visit on the Day of the Dead
October 31
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We build home altars to invite family souls to visit us on the Day of the Holy Innocents (November 1) and the Day of the Dead (November 2)
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Quechua, the Indigenous language of the Andes
CENTRAL ANDES ~ The Indigenous language of Andes communities in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
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Indigenous People
Indigenous people represent a continuum of cultures from Alaska and the Canadian arctic to Tierra del Fuego at the bottom of South America.
Benito Juárez
Saturday, March 21, 2020
SAN PABLO GUELATAO, Oaxaca, Mexico
The Indigenous founding father of the modern Mexican state was born on March 21, 1806. There is a statue of Juárez in the northwest corner of Bryant Park.
Gaucho
South American cowboys in Argentina, Uruguay, and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul
In the beginning we are all Indigenous somewhere.
In the end, we are all children of the earth, sun, moon and stars.