Chicago Cultural Alliance

69th Annual Chicago Powwow
2022-10-07 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Schiller Woods West – Grove 2, Irving Park Rd, Schiller Park, IL, 60176, United States
Join us as we celebrate the American Indian Center’s 69th Annual Chicago Powwow! This event is open to the public!

"Let's Talk Native Horror" Screening
2022-06-23 18:30 - 21:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us Thursday, June 23, 2022 @ 6:30pm for a short film presentation and Q&A with award-winning filmaker by Mike Marin (Navajo/Laguna Pueblo/Washoe)

The Bridge to Native Chicago
2022-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
The Bridge to Native Chicago
Members of RedLine, a local Chicago Native American Drum group, and interdisciplinary artist Ronnie Preston (San Carlos Apache), along with jazz musicians from France, collectively known as The Bridge, will be the featured musicians for this unique collaboration.

The Bridge intends to form a network for exchange, production, and diffusion, to build a transatlantic bridge that will be crossed on a regular basis by French and American musicians as part of collaborative projects. And, in addition to the scheduled projects, encourage meetings and relationships between creative musicians and perpetuate them. In other words: to give them the times and spaces to join and rejoin on both sides of the ocean and to deepen their exchanges.

RedLine is a group of intertribal singers who perform songs from the great Oklahoma Nations of the Southern Plains. RedLine formed in 2012 to address a vital need for a community-based Drum. This action was necessary as it created resurgence in arts engagement needed to mobilize and build community and introduce/reintroduce cultural practice among youth and young adults in the Native American community. Through song, RedLine shares a small taste of southern plains culture with Chicago and the Midwest big water area, while providing a circle for intergenerational teaching and learning.

Champion grass dancer and hoop dancer, singer, storyteller, and accomplished artist, Ronnie Preston is dedicated to sharing the cultures of Native American tribes and nations through music and dance. As a performing artist and spokesperson, Mr. Preston has toured from coast to coast, frequently as a guest on college campuses. A descendant of the San Carlos Apache nation in Arizona, he began dancing and attending pow wow celebrations as a young child. Now residing in Chicago, he is a celebrated teacher, performer throughout the Midwest, a guest for events at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and other venues, and performer and emcee for pow wows and many other presentations celebrating Native American culture.

Spring Community Powwow
2022-04-16 17:00 - 19:30 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Everyone welcome at the Spring Community Powwow, Saturday, April 16. Dinner served at 5pm, Grand Entry at 6:30pm.

Film Screening: Beans
2022-03-24 13:30 - 15:30 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Everyone welcome to a free film screening at the American Indian Center of Chicago.
Beans (2020) – Directed by Tracey Deer (Mohawk)
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.

A Winter's Telling - Cultural Roots and Oral Traditions
2022-03-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 central street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
The Mitchell Museum in collaboration with Chicago’s American Indian Center brings you the Native American Seasonal Tradition of Spoken Word

About this event

Join us for an evening of stories, music, refreshments, and an open mic session. Indigenous Story Tellers, Poets, Writers will be celebrating the end of the Winter season with words of wisdom, stories, histories old and new.
Please RSVP on Eventbrite. Suggest $5 donation w/ museum admission, to be paid onsite for this in-person event. Tribal members free.
The health and safety of our visitors, staff, and volunteers is our top priority. For more information on our Covid-19 guidelines, please visit https://mitchellmuseum.org/plan-your-visit/

For more information about this program, please contact: info@mitchellmuseum.org

(847) 475-1030 | www.mitchellmuseum.org/events/

Ukwakhwa: Bringing Corn to AIC - Trade Market
2022-03-09 05:00 - 11:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us for a presentation by Rebecca M. Webster (Kany^htkelu) (Oneida Nation, Wisconsin). Rebecca is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and has been a cultural educator regarding seed keeping and the food sovereignty movement.
March 8 – Cooking classes with a lesson on native corn
March 9 – Trade Market and the art of bartering
Everyone is welcome!

Ukwakwha: Bringing Corn to AIC - Cooking Class
2022-03-08 07:00 - 12:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States

Round Dance at AIC
2022-03-05 11:00 - 14:00 | American Indian Center, 3401 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Everyone welcome to the Round Dance at the American Indian Center, with a feast, dancing, singing, performers, contests, vendors, and more.
