Living Earth is a signature annual event at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Presentations explore issues impacting sacred spaces in three locations: Alaska, Hawai‘i, and Utah. The program focuses on innovations and sustainability in Indigenous communities with an emphasis on awareness and protection of sacred spaces.

Welcome

Maria Marable-Bunch

Associate Director for Museum Learning and Programs
National Museum of the American Indian

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Living Earth Panel Discussion

Saving Sacred Spaces Panel Discussion

This panel focuses on sites sacred to Indigenous communities that are at risk due to environmental changes, population growth, tourism, and natural resource extraction.

Living Earth Film Series

In addition to the panel, four films will be screened. They feature stories about water management in protection of sacred sites and Indigenous peoples’ spiritual and cultural connections to land.

Shásh Jaa’: Bears Ears

(USA, 2016, 26 min.)
Director: Angelo Baca (Diné/Hopi)

Water Flows Together

(USA, 2020, 11 min.)
Directors: Palmer Morse, Taylor Graham, Matt Mikkelsen
Producer: Colleen Cooley (Diné)

However Wide the Sky: Places of Power

(USA, 2021, 57 min.)
Director: David Aubrey
Associate Producer: Jhane Myers (Comanche/Blackfeet)

Into America’s Wild

(USA, 2020, 40 min.)
Director: Greg MacGillivray

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