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[b]Summary of helpful relevant info so far [/b] (Please add as needed)

* Many reservations welcome visitors and have recreational, historical and cultural sites and events to share with the public. All of the attractions, activities and lodgings listed on NativeAmerica.Travel are open to the public.
https://nativeamerica.travel/pages/faq

[b]Here are some reservations in the US that welcome visitors and volunteers:[/b]

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

2. [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.

3.  [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.

4. [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.

5.  [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 in this thread[/b]

1. The [b]Navajo Nation[/b] encompasses more than 27,000 square miles and crosses parts of three states. It is about the size of West Virginia and has over 165,000 residents.

- [b]Navajo reservation[/b] https://amizade.org/programs/navajo-nation/
https://www.roadscholar.o...on-Schools

Navajo Nation official FAQ site: https://www.navajo-nsn.go...n.gov/Faqs

The Navajo volunteer program in Tsaile, AZ is temporarily closed to visitors but the town itself and many  Navajo tourist spots are open - eg., Tsaile's Canyon de Chelly, the Mummy Cave, and Diné College in Tsaile are open.

2. [b]The Alaska Native Heritage Center[/b] (ANHC) is a living cultural center located in Anchorage, Alaska that promotes active observance of Alaska Native culture and traditions. As the only statewide cultural and education center dedicated to celebrating all cultures and heritages, ANHC serves as a statewide resource for Alaska Natives from birth until Elder.
https://www.alaskanative.net/

3. The Tohono O'Odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum hosts annual cultural celebrations that are open to the public to attend. The museum presents a collection of historic and contemporary Tohono O'odham art plus artifacts with ties to the past. Today, the various bands of O'odham people are broken up into four federally recognized tribes: The Tohono O'odham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community, and the Salt River (Pima Maricopa) Indian Community.
[b]Kai restaurant[/b] on the Gila reservation outside Phoenix

4.  [b]San Xavier Mission[/b] outside Tucson on the ztohono reservation, also Kitt Peak on that reservation

5.  [b]Hulapei reservation[/b] by the Grand Canyon 
“For the Hualapai, the universe and the earth are connected in a circle, with no beginning or end, and the mighty Canyon and the Colorado River are living entities infused with conscious spirit. These Indigenous people invite you to walk their land and experience their universe to ignite your spirit.”
https://grandcanyonwest.com/hualapai-tribe/

6. [b]Hopi Visitor Center[/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)

Website indicates that the Hopi Cultural Center in Second Mesa, Arizona is open, with some exceptions: 
The Hopi Cultural Center offers a variety of experiences: 
A restaurant serving American and traditional Hopi food
A motel with 33 rooms and one suite
Indoor and outdoor event spaces
Hopi Reservations to help visitors immerse themselves in Hopi culture

7. [b]Rosebud reservation[/b] in South Dakota
The Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota Iis the home of the federally recognized Rosebud Sioux Tribe, who are Sicangu, a band of Lakota people. The Lakota name Sicangu Oyate translates as the "Burnt Thigh Nation", also known by the French term, the Brulé Sioux.
Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center
St. Joseph’s Indian School
1301 N. Main St. Chamberlain, SD
aktalakota@stjo.org · 800-798-3452
https://aktalakota.stjo.org/tribal-lands/rosebud-sioux-reservation/
https://www.spiritualtravels.info/spiritual-sites-around-the-world/north-america/rosebud-indian-reservation-in-south-dakota/

8. “There are many volunteer opportunities on reservations if you look them up: you can do janitor work at a summer camp, carpentry, wrap Christmas gifts for kids, relief drives...

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

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

11. “I am Native. Just go live in a city with a high percentage of Natives. 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.”

12. “DH went to law school in the PNW and worked in a legal clinic on a reservation. So if you’re an attorney, maybe that is an option.”

13. Volunteer at the national museum of the American Indian (no positions available at moment but check next year)
https://americanindian.si.../volunteer”

[b]Museums and art exhibits[/b]
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (DC, NYC and Md locations)

The National Museum of the American Indian operates three facilities. The museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC, offers exhibition galleries and spaces for performances, lectures and symposia, research, and education. The George Gustav Heye Center (GGHC) in New York City houses exhibitions, research, educational activities, and performing arts programs. The Cultural Resources Center (CRC) in Suitland, Maryland, houses the museum's collections as well as the conservation, repatriation, and digital imaging programs, and research facilities. The NMAI's off-site outreach efforts, often referred to as the "fourth museum," include websites, traveling exhibitions, and community programs.
https://americanindian.si.edu/

- Historic Saint Mary’s has some interesting exhibits on native life from the colonial period in that part of Maryland..
Historic St. Mary's City is an outdoor museum of living history and archaeology. Wander the paths to see an example of a Woodland Indian hamlet, a reconstructed tall ship, a mid-1600s style tobacco farm with animals, and a working printing press.
https://www.visitmaryland.org/listing/history-heritage/historic-st-marys-city#:~:text=Details-,Historic%20St.,and%20a%20working%20printing%20press.

Traveling exhibit  [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

8. [b]Books and audio recordings[/b]

Michael A. McDonnell
[u]Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America[/u]

Paul Chaat Smith
[u]Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong[/u] (Indigenous Americas Series)

Chester Nez

[u]Navajo Code Talkers: A Guide to First-Person Narratives in the Veterans History Project
Biography of Navajo Code Talker [/u] Chester Nez, together with a video recording of his oral history interview from the Veterans History Project archives.

Chester Nez, and Judith Schiess Avila
[u]Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII[/u]

Works by [b]Luther Standing Bear[/b] (Óta Kté or "Plenty Kill," also known as Matȟó Nážiŋ or "Standing Bear", 1868 - 1939) was a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota author, educator, philosopher, and actor.

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