Native Arts+Health

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A significant element of U.S. Indigenous life is Creativity, or the Arts. Some say it is a kind of powerful Medicine amongst our communities as a wonderful coping mechanism. Some of these include expressive renditions in Fine Art, Paintings, Ledger Art, Theatre, Speech, Dance, Arts and Crafts, Design, Music - both vocal and instrumental, Animation, and so forth. Know that ancient, modern, and fusion forms/contexts abound at remarkable levels for all First Nations peoples.

AIDA views these as integral, essential to healing in the most natural ways in the addressing of diabetes and other issues that plague our U.S. Indigenous communities. Therefore, a growing list of beneficial resources in the Arts of which support Indigenous life and healings is provided below. Please feel warmly welcomed to click on any link listed in alphabetical order:

• Alaska Native Arts Foundation
• Americans for the Arts
• Ancestral Rich Treasures of Zuni Cooperative (ARTZ)
• Cherokee Heritage Center
• Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center
• Denver Art Museum
• First Nations Development Institute
• Gilcrease Museum: Thoma Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
• Heard Museum
• Indian Arts and Crafts Board
• Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
• Jacobson House Native Art Center
• Lakota Ways: Northern Great Plains Indian Arts+Culture Village
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, The (The Met in NYC)
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Gallery of Art
• Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
• Native American Art Magazine
• Polynesian Cultural Center, The (La'ie, Hawaii)
• Redhawk Native American Arts Council
• Rock Your Mocs Days
• Southwest Indian Foundation
• Urban Indian 5