Come celebrate community and the start of MN American Indian Month at the 2012 MN American Indian Month Kickoff Parade of Nations and Celebration, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 beginning at 9:30am at Cedar Field – Little Earth of United Tribes, Minneapolis, MN (please see the parade map route attached). Please join us for the Parade of Nations and show your pride wearing regalia, ribbon shirts and shawls. Organizations and groups are encouraged to carry banners, puppets, etc. All organizations/groups/eagle staff carriers/honor guards interested in participating or creating a float for the parade please contact Daniel Yang, 612-235-4969 or dyang@nacdi.org if you are interested in becoming a kickoff sponsor or for further details and registration (no fee).

Breakfast Bites is back! Join us Wednesday, April 25th from 8:00 – 9:15 am at the All My Relations Gallery. Coffee and light breakfast will be provided. Feel free to bring a colleague, friend or the entire office! New for 2012, we will be focusing out conversations on the American Indian Community Blueprint.

Now called Blueprint Breakfast Bites, these free alternative community conversations are designed to build community, strengthen relationships and provide a safe place where necessary and meaningful dialogue can occur. Over the next year, these meetings are intended to facilitate a community-driven process that encourages honest and productive conversations about moving the urban American Indian community forward.

Blueprint Breakfast Bites dialogue will focus on prioritizing strategies defined in the American Indian Community Blueprint. Each month community members will have the opportunity to come together to discuss implementation strategies in one of each of the 11 community visions identified in the American Indian Community Blueprint. Join us for a thoughtful conversation and a great breakfast!

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Location:

All My Relations Gallery

1414 East Franklin Avenue

Minneapolis, MN, 55404

Please RSVP your attendance to dyang@nacdi.org

Shijéí/My Heart is a brand new series of mixed media works by Carolyn Lee Anderson, a Minnesota-based artist of Navajo descent. This new series is inspired by the stories and artistic traditions of her family. Acrylic paintings on canvas, patterned fabric, and Navajo weaving are stitched together and lashed to loom-inspired frames. Each material has its own history, and each art form is tied to her maternal lineage. By combining them, Carolyn acknowledges and examines these various historical threads and how they have affected and influenced her life.

On view at All My Relations Gallery 1414 E Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55404

April 13th - May 25th

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday-Friday 11 am - 6 pm

Saturday - Sunday 11 am - 3 pm

Free and open to the public!

Join us for an opening reception Friday April 13th 5 pm - 8 pm

Light refreshments served

Carolyn Lee Anderson, in partnership with the Native American Community Development Institute, is a fiscal year 2011 recipient of a Cultural Community Partnership grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible in part by a grant form the Minnesota State Arts Board, through and appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and by a grant form the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibit was also made possible with support from National Native Creative Development Program-Longhouse at the Evergreen State College.