Browse Exhibits tagged "Monacan" (3 total)
The Monacan Homecoming Festival
The Monacan Homecoming, held on the first Saturday of October each year, combines a family reunion with a church bazaar and bake sale, a massive buffet dinner, and the tribal scholarship auction. Youth dancers perform for the crowd as a way of honoring their heritage and acknowledging the scholarships offered to tribal members attending college.
Mantle: A State Tribute to Virginia Indians
Native peoples have lived in this land we know as Virginia for thousands of years. Despite hardships brought about by the loss of their land, language, and civil rights, many Virginia tribes persisted and their members have continued to contribute to the Commonwealth through agriculture, land stewardship, teaching, military and civic service, the arts, and other avenues.
In recognition of their lasting legacy and significance, as well as to ensure that the rich and inspiring stories of our Native peoples will endure, the Virginia Indian Commemorative Commission was established with the purpose of erecting a permanent monument on Capitol Square in Richmond.
By Our Own Hands: Virginia Indian Artists
This exhibit revolves around a series of interviews conducted in 2006 with various Virginia Indian artists and performers, most of whom later participated in the Smithsonian Museum's National Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, in 2007.
Among the Virginia Indian tribes, several traditional cultural forms are still practiced, and new traditions have developed as well. A few artists make their living solely from their art; generally speaking, however, these practices are a part-time endeavor. Tribal artists are involved in beadwork, leather crafting, wood carving, pottery, and basket weaving. Tribal dancing has continued as a tradition, and the Virginia Indians practice not only their own traditional dances, such as the Green Corn Dance and the Canoe Dance, but they also participate in intertribal contemporary powwow dancing as well.
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Unus Americanus ex Virginia
This engraving, taken from life, shows an American Indian man wearing a necklace, earrings, and head ornaments. The inscription in the upper left reads, "Unus Americanus ex Virginia" (an American from Virginia), a place name that early in the seventeenth century referred to much of both present-day Virginia and New England. In 1996, the scholar George R. Hamell identified the man as Jacques, an…