six life-sized recreated dwellings with a native guide introducing them to the ways, traditions and lifestyles of the Dene, Iñupiat, Sivuqam Yupigi, Yupiit, Cupiit, Unangax̂, Sugpiat, dAXunhyuu, Łingít, Xaadas and Ts'msyen peoples. The centre’s Hall of Cultures has a crafts workshop. MONUMENTAL SIGHTS Join a guided Navajo tour of Monument Valley, not a national park but a tribal park that spans 30,000 acres of Utah and Arizona within the 16-million-acre Navajo reservation. Go off-road to explore the sandstone buttes and desert scenery of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park – or Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks in the Navajo language – on a narrated Jeep tour and visit usually restricted areas such as the Ear of the Wind arch. TRADITIONAL OUTRIGGER Take part in age-old Hawaiian chants while paddling a traditional hoe wa’a outrigger canoe on a tour through Hawaii’s history from Maui’s Wailea Beach, known in Hawaii’s ancient language as “Waters of Sacred Happiness”. Paddlers get to learn about the Polynesian voyagers who used celestial navigation as they sailed the Polynesian Triangle from New Zealand to Rapa Nui and Hawaii. PAY HOMAGE TO SITTING BULL Vsit the Sitting Bull Visitor Centre in Fort Yates, North Dakota, and see the original burial site of the chief whose Sioux warrior force annihilated General George Custer’s cavalry unit in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Bismarck, South Dakota, hosts one of the largest Native American culture celebrations in the United Tribes International Powwow. PICTUREDMain image: Western Montana's Glacier Country sits on the ancestral territory of the Amskapi Piikani, Ksanka, Séliš, and Qlis̓pé people. Above: Outrigger canoe tour in Hawaii'. Below: Miccosukee man carving wood in Florida; The Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, held annually on the fourth weekend in April, is the largest powwow in North America. Yarn and weaving demonstration at Monument Valley Tribal Park See the carving of sacred pipes from soft pipestone by American Indian tribes at Minnesota’s Pipestone National Monument INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCES MATT MORGAN HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY/TOR JOHNSON visitusa.org.uk 21
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