The Redhawk Native American Arts Council is an organization of teaching artists who preserve Indigenous culture and teach it at pow wow festivals and in classrooms.
The Council manages traveling exhibits and offers a variety of educational and corporate diversity programs. It also supports Indigenous artists and provides scholarships to promising Native American students.
Indigenous People Day Pow Wow
The Redhawk Council produces an annual Indigenous People Day Pow Wow on Randall’s Island over Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day weekend. It’s the Sunday and Monday of the weekend so Monday opens with a sunrise ceremony.
Redhawk Council Teaching Artists Represent All of the Americas
The Redhawk Council has many North American artists, but represents and teaches Indigenous arts from all of the Americas.
- Aztec (Mexico)
- Blackfoot (Great Plains of U.S. and Canada)
- Cayapa (Ecuador)
- Cherokee (Southeastern Woodlands)
- Chippewa (Great Plains of U.S. and Canada)
- Choctaw (Mississippi River Valley)
- Kichwa / Kechuwa (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Argentina)
- Laguna Pueblo (New Mexico)
- Lakota (Great Plains of U.S. and Canada)
- Lumbee (North Carolina)
- Mashantucket Pequot (Connecticut)
- Maya (Mexico/Guatemala)
- Métis (Great Plains of Canada)
- Mohegan (Connecticut)
- Montauk (Long Island)
- Narragansett (Rhode Island)
- Navajo (Four Corners Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
- Néhiyaw (Great Plains of Canada and the U.S.)
- Ojibwe (Great Plains of U.S. and Canada)
- Oneida (Upstate New York near the Great Lakes)
- Pipil (El Salvador)
- Saginaw (Michigan)
- Shinnecock (Long Island)
- Taíno (Caribbean)
- Yaqui (Mexico)
These are just a few of the many Indigenous cultures of the Americas.
Our origins and cultural training influence how we see Indigenous peoples. But there is a cultural continuum from the northernmost Arctic to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America. Every ecological niche had a tribe of Indigenous peoples who lived there in harmony with the land.
Each tribe is unique, but people of the land share many cultural traditions. Our variations are rich and beautiful, but the similarities are what is the most striking. People do similar things no matter when or where we come from. We’re all human after all.
Support the Redhawk Native American Arts Council
The Redhawk Council provides scholarships for higher education to Native American students. Your tax deductible donation supports these efforts.