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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The mission of the Alaska Native Heritage Center is to share, perpetuate and preserve the unique Alaska Native culture, languages, traditions and values through celebration and education. The Center does this by promoting the arts and languages of these people through programs in school and at the Center that focus on the culture around these arts and languages. The Center also focuses on preserving the past as well as establishing a clear idea of the present culture of the people in this area.
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Subject: Art Education, Culture , Languages, Education, Folk Culture, Folk Museums, Indigenous Arts, Indigenous People
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The department of American Studies at The George Washington University is a nationally recognized program that has award-winning faculty as well as innovative masters and doctoral students who conduct new research in the field. This program focuses on providing the students with the hands on experiences of field research and encourages their new ideas about the culture, history, politics, and religion of America. The program offers bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees as well as interdisciplinary minors.
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Subject: Post-secondary education, American studies and media, Interdisciplinary Studies, Culture , Popular culture, Folklife, Folklore
Creator: The George Washington University
Publisher: The George Washington University
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: University of Kentucky’s Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department fosters the understanding of language and cultural study abroad and at home. This department teaches undergraduate and graduate students, purses advancing knowledge in language and culture, and provides service and instruction cultural awareness to the people of Kentucky.
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Subject: Languages, Folklore, Culture , Literature, Kentucky, Classic Literature, Post-Secondary Education, Graduate Education
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Brooklyn Arts Council looks to utilize the benefits of the Brooklyn Community by showcasing the arts from this area of Manhattan as well as fiscally supporting them. The Brooklyn Arts Council supports the visual artists, dancers, and musicians of this community through grants and providing space for them to perform or display their art. This council is also heavily involved in encouraging arts in schools by providing Arts in Education, a program that looks to immerse teachers and students in educational arts experiences in the full range of arts disciplines.
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Subject: Folk Art, Music, Visual Arts, Culture , Communities, Dance, Folk Dance, Art Education, Grants
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The mission of ChinaVine is to educate English speakers about China’s cultural heritage. To complete this mission, ChinaVine has created an interactive website to help bring the English speaking community information about the folk art of China as well as the evolving visual, dramatic, and fiber arts of the country. Another goal of ChinaVine is to preserve the folk art of the rural parts of this country since many young people are moving to the cities of China to further their education.
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Subject: Folk Art, Education, Architecture, Dance, Festivals, Culture , Religion, Fiber Art, Literature, Drama, Visual Arts
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized Native American group in Mississippi. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians looks to improve the lives of its members through providing jobs and utilizing the natural resources of the tribe. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians does things through the government side and also goes for partnerships with local entities in the Mississippi communities.
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Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans, Choctaw Agency (U.S.), Culture , Tribes, Mississippi
Creator: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Publisher: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Massachusetts Cultural Council is a group that looks to provide monetary and educational guidance to artists in the Massachusetts area. This is done through multiple grants including artists fellowships, local cultural events, and the Artist Space.
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Subject: Massachusetts, Culture , Art, Education, Folk Arts
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Northwest Folklife Festival spotlights traditional arts across the worlds of dance, art, and storytelling. This festival is a major focal point for many traditional and ethnic performers in the Northwest area. The four-day festival features artists that vary from hip-hop emcees, Irish cloggers, Bluegrass fiddlers, and West African dancers. This festival is a great asset to the folklife community of the Northwest.
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Subject: Folklife, Folk festivals, Northwest American, Culture , Music, Dance, Arts, Folk arts
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Traditional Arts in Upstate New York is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to showcasing the folklife, folk arts, and culture of the upper counties of New York state. TAUNY does this by preserving, promoting, and collecting the arts that come from the people of this section of the state of New York. This organization is dedicated to helping people appreciate and understand the traditions and local culture of the people of North Country.
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Subject: New York, Folk Art, Culture , Folk Culture, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc., North Country (N.Y.), Folk Life
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