Happy Native American Heritage Month!

Here at CSET, we are excited to celebrate the remarkable contributions of Native American individuals in shaping emerging technologies and fortifying national security. 

Below you’ll find a (non-exhaustive) list of information and resources compiled by CSET team members to help us learn from, support, and celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

• Learn About & Engage With the Native American Community in Emerging Tech/National Security:
  • Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group
  • Indigenous in AI 
  • Natives in Tech 
  • International Wakashan AI Consortium 
  • Revitalization of Indigenous Languages through Pre-processing and Neural Machine Translation: The case of Inuktitut
  • Addressing Challenges of Indigenous Languages through Neural Machine Translation: The case of Inuktitut-English  (Le and Sadat, 2020)
• Attend a Native American Heritage Month Event
  • Indigenous Communities, Child-Family Separation, and the Catholic Church: What Do Truth and Healing Require? (11/9)
  • Native American Heritage Month Lunch & Learn (11/13) 
  • DC Public Library – Native American Heritage Month Events (throughout the month)
  • In-person and Virtual Artist Conversation with Geo Neptune and Lily Hope (11/16), featured artists of the Renwick Gallery’s Sharing Honors and Burdens program mentioned below under “Reflections and Resources”
  • Native Cinema Showcase (available virtually from 11/17-24)
  • Native American Heritage Day: Honoring the Jingle Dress Dance (11/24)
• Dine at Native American-owned or run restaurants:
  • Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian, not Native American-owned, but led by Navajo Executive Chef Freddie Bitsoie 
• Shop at a Native American-owned businesses:
  • 20 Indigenous and Native-Owned Businesses to Shop
  • Buy Native, a site for finding Native artisans and Native businesses
• Read Books by Native American Authors: 
  • Selections from U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
  • 25 Best Books by Native American Authors to Add to Your Bookshelf
• Listen to a Native American Podcast: 
  • Recommendations for Native-made podcasts from Indigenous podcasters 
• Donate to Native American-owned causes:
  • Native American Heritage Association
  • First Nations Development Institute
  • Association on American Indian Affairs
  • American Indian Science and Engineering Society
  • Native American Advancement Foundation
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association
  • Native American Rights Fund
  • American Indian College Fund
  • The Native American Disability Law Center
• Instagram Accounts to follow:
  • James Jones
• Reflection and Resources:
  • Guide to Indigenous DC 
  • Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 (through 11/31/2024) 
  • The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans at the National Gallery of Art (through 1/15/2024)
  • Indigenous knowledges informing ‘machine learning’ could prevent stolen art and other culturally unsafe AI practices, by Bronwyn Carlson and Peita Richards
  • Path Lit By Lightning, by David Maraniss 
  • War Against the Children, by Zach Levitt, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Simon Romero and Tim Wallace
  • GU Indigenous Studies Working Group
  • AI Can Help Indigenous People Protect Biodiversity, by Wai Chee Dimock

Please note: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the various information above belong solely to the author/organization/etc., and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University, and/or other groups or individuals.