IN HONOR OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Susan Power, who received her law degree from Harvard Law School, left a career in law to pursue creative writing. Her fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. Her first novel, The Grass Dancer (1994), won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1995. Her most recent book is Roofwalker (Milkweed, 2002). She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe (Yanktonai Dakota) and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), curator of Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories, will discuss the exhibit. Our Peoples allows Native Americans to tell their stories, insights, and perspectives on history. Smith will provide an overview of the exhibit and explore key themes. Questions and a brief discussion follow.

Live Webcast, http://smithsonian.tv/nmai

Lecture, 12 noon
Rasmuson Theater, 1st Level
Questions and brief discussion follow

Rug Weaving Demonstration, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Potomac Gathering Place
Master weavers Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are sisters who were born into the Tabaaha (Water Edge Clan) and born for the To'aheedliinii (Two Waters Flow Together Clan) of the Navajo Nation. Weaving is a legacy in the Teller family. Five generations—grandmothers, mother, sisters, aunts, and cousins—have produced award-winning rugs. Lynda and Barbara are known for weaving rugs in the traditional Two Grey Hills pattern, identified primarily by a double-diamond layout and intricate geometric design using natural colored, hand-carded, and hand-spun wool.

Barbara and Lynda will share the traditions and history of Two Grey Hills style of weaving.

Poet and musician Joy Harjo (Muskogee) expresses the craft of poetry through words, tribal music, jazz, and rock. Her award-winning books of poetry include A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales (W. W. Norton), The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W.W. Norton), and She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press). Harjo discusses her most recent book, the best-selling How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2004). Reception and book signing follow the program. Program moderator: Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee).

Please enter the museum at the south entrance on Maryland Avenue near 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW. Prior to the program, the museum's Mitsitam Native Foods Café will have extended hours and will be open until 6:00 p.m.

Tomson Highway (First Nations Cree) is one of the foremost Native playwrights whose award-winning works include The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Fluent in Cree, French, and English, Mr. Highway is also a novelist and a musician whose works include cabaret-style interpretations of Native stories. Program moderator: Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee). Reception and book signing follow the program.

Please enter the museum at the south entrance on Maryland Avenue near 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW. Prior to the program, the museum's Mitsitam Native Foods Café will have extended hours and will be open until 6:00 p.m

Advance registration is required. $75 ($35 students). Registration forms and additional information available online at www.AmericanIndian.si.edu or by e-mail to NMAI-SSP@si.edu.

NEW SERIES: Views from the Field, an occasional forum presenting the diverse views and work of scholars, historians, and other writers on Native issues.

Charles Wilkinson, a legal scholar and historian who is on the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses his new book, Blood Struggle�The Rise of Modern Indian Nation (W.W. Norton). Professor Wilkinson has devoted much of his professional life to study and work on Native causes.

"An amazingly complete accounting of the modern Indian movement. That Wilkinson knows so many people who have been active over four decades is a staggering achievement. This is THE BOOK�we will not need another one on this topic." Vine Deloria Jr.

Book-signing will follow the program.

Please enter the museum at the south entrance on Maryland Avenue near 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW.