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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it’s cringey.  very few Americans (or anyone) really understand what a tribe is and what reservations are like. it can only help for people to learn more. obviously with the consent of the tribe!

OP  what kind of skills do you have to offer? [/quote]

DP.

I /we don’t really have any special skills to offer.  But I’m also interested in recommendations about reservations not too far away where I could show the kids how Native American people live on them.  Agree too few people have knowledge about the Native American today.[/quote]

OP  hi there. Here is a summary of what I have found and recs from others on this thread. This is just a spring board for further research.

Here are some reservations in the US that welcome visitors and volunteers:

* [b]Rosebud Reservation[/b], South Dakota Volunteers can work on cultural, labor, and social projects with the Sicangu Oyate, or Sicangu Rosebud Sioux people.

* [b]Blackfeet Reservation[/b], Montana Volunteers can work on community assistance projects, such as renovating classrooms, planting gardens, and painting homes. Global Volunteers offers a program for volunteers, including meals, accommodations, and transportation.

* [b]Fort Peck Indian Reservation[/b], Montana Visitors are welcome to see the reservation's historical places and artifacts, including sacred sites, buffalo jumps, and tipi rings. Visitors should contact the tribal office to respect tribal customs.

* [b]Pine Ridge Reservation[/b], South Dakota Re-Member offers week-long service-learning trips to the reservation. Volunteers can work on projects such as building bunk beds, installing outhouses, and building wheelchair ramps.

* [b]Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve [/b]Volunteers can help welcome visitors, work on trail maintenance, or become a docent at the Jacob and Sarah Ebey House.

[b]Responses on this thread [/b]

1. [b]The Klamath River Renewal Project[/b] could probably use some help.

2. I am Native. Just go [u]live in a city with a high percentage of Na[/u]tives. Like South Dakota, NM or Arizona. Many tribal employees are white: lawyers, doctors, teachers. One of my friends did Teach for America in a tiny reservatio

3. - [b]The Native Life Center[/b] outside Alaska
- [b]San Xavier Mission[/b] outside Tucson on the ztohono reservation, also Kitt Peak on that reservation 
- [b]Kai restaurant on the Gila reservation[/b] outside Phoenix
- [b]Hulapei reservation [/b]by the Grand Canyon (actually haven’t been to this one, but did look into it)
- [b]Hopi Visitor Cenyet[/b] on the reservation (don’t think this is always open—used to be open more but visitors were rude so they shut it down a bit)

Museums
- Smithsonian National museum of Native American
- Historic Saint Mary’s has some interesting exhibits on native life from the colonial period in that part of Maryland..

- [b]Navajo reservation [/b]https://amizade.org/programs/navajo-nation/
https://www.roadscholar.org/find-an-adventure/6262/Volunteering-Navajo-Nation-Schools

4. [b]Rosebud reservation[/b] in South Dakota

5. Traveling exhibit sometimes at the Native American Indian museum. [b]Preston Singletary[/b] is a fantastic modern artist and this particular exhibit is very enlightening. It's about a myth that (along the way) includes a virgin birth. It's in Indianapolis right now but it adds dates when museums book it. https://www.prestonsingle...exhibition

6. [b]Earthwatch[/b] used to do some archeological digs on/around tribal lands out west

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