Last few hours to reserve any of these five 🔥🎥 from the #mothertongue2023 & #mothertongue2024 - mothertongue2025.eventive.org/schedule

This 🎥 is a personal favorites from last 10 years - Ten leading Indigenous filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa, & South Pacific craft an anthology film in response to the 250th anniversary of the invasion of their lands. #mothertongue2025 watch here: mothertongue2025.eventive.org/films/we-are...

We showed this fantastic short - Mother’s Tongue (2021) by D. Wilmos Paul in #mothertongue2024 and so pleased to bring it back - watch it here: mothertongue2025.eventive.org/films/mother...

2 fantastic films from our 2019 Mother Tongue Film Festival - at other ends of the great Moana - Blackbird and Sgaawaay K’uuna Edge of the Knife. 4th festival featured 60 films from 22 regions in 66 languages.

Watch here: mothertongue2025.eventive.org/schedule
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Jáaji Approx (2015) ExperimentalDirector: Sky HopinkaEnglish and Hočak (Ho-chunk) with English subtitles- is one of my favorite shorts of the 2017 Mother Tongue Film Festival #MTFF2017 - you can stream it here for next 48 hours - mothertongue2025.eventive.org/schedule

Today is the last in-person screenings for the 10th #mothertongue2025 - screenings are at hirshhorn: mothertongue.si.edu

🎬 Honoring Our Relations | 11 am–12 pm: A collection of family-friendly shorts that prompt us to think about our lives in relationship to others and the world around us. 1/

Grateful to all who came for opening night of 10th Mother Tongue Film Festival! The Zotigh Singers performed a welcome song, we watched award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s feature-length film Singing Back the Buffalo & had a Q&A with the director modeled by Cindy Benitez #mothertongue2025

Professor Mikinaak Migwans (U. Toronto) (SIMA alum), and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Howard Morphy (ANU) will be returning to teach. 3/

, while Emeritus Ethnologist Candace Greene (NMNH), Professor of Museum Studies Cara Krmpotich (U. Toronto), 2/

We are pleased to announce that for our 2025 summer session of SIMA (June 23 - July 18th) we will be joined by 6 guest faculty: Professor of Anthropology Paul Basu (Oxford) and Honorary Associate Professor Frances Morphy (ANU) will be joining us for the first time 1/

10 days for 10 years (2.20-3.1.25) the Mother Tongue Film Festival will be celebrating 10 years of showcasing 🎥 that “explore the power of language to connect the past, present & future”. Grateful to my colleagues, the filmmakers & our various partners #mothertongue2024
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Who should apply? Masters & doctoral students interested in material-visual methods. Students in interdisciplinary programs related to anthro are welcome. Who is eligible: US students even if studying abroad; International students in a US university & Canadian 1st Nations 4/~

Students are also taught about ethics of engaging w/ communities’ belongings & practicalities of collaborative research. W/ faculty, each student carries out preliminary collections research on a topic of their own choice & develops a prospectus for research to be implemented at their university 3/~

Over 4 weeks of seminars & hands-on workshops in collections, students are introduced to the scope of NMNH’s collections; become acquainted w/ strategies for navigating museum; learn different methods & range of theoretical issues that collections-based research may address. 2/~

📝 Call For Applications 💻
Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) is accepting proposals from grad students (National Museum of Natural History, June 23–July 18, 2025). SIMA trains students in museum & archival research methods thru engaging anthropology collections at Smithsonian’s NMNH 1/~