Congratulations! Anna Meshejian has designated a Dollars for Doers grant to your organization. Dollars for Doers is a program that matches Capitol One associate volunteer time with a grant to the qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of the associate’s choice. Through this program, the company donates to the non-profit of their […]
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We’re very excited to announce that we’re officially in the construction phase of getting a much needed new roof for the museum! Unfortunately for visitors, this means that we’ve got to close off the exhibit focused on the local history as well as the book room part of the gift […]
Greetings to all of our fantastic followers, supporters, patrons, and visitors. We know so many of you look forward each year to our April Gathering. It is with a somber heart that we officially announce that we will not be able to hold a gathering for this Spring. Last year, […]
In 2019 we posted about the Navajo Quilt Project and shared that information again in 2020 and 2021. We have been overwhelmed at the tremendous outpouring of support and want to thank everyone for their generosity. The supervisor for the Navajo Nation Shiprock Senior Center in New Mexico contacted us this […]
In 2020, following the success of its Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, Ucross launched a similar opportunity for Native American writers at all stages in their professional careers. The Ucross Fellowship for Native American Writers is open to practicing writers who are currently producing work in one or more […]
A while back, we made a post about our Amazon Wish List for how people can help out the museum from home. We were so excited to get our first donation of needles! For some, it may not be a bit deal, but for us, it means that we have […]
A recent visitor to the Frisco Native American Museum and vice president of the Outer Banks Stamp Club, John Webster, recognized that stamps have an important story to tell because they not only depict specific moments in history, they also reflect changes in cultural awareness and understanding. He approached staff about […]
We hope the new year has already brought you some positive changes and opportunities! We’d just like to take today to remind you that we are officially on our off season hours! We’ll be waiting for all of you winter birds! We will doing some construction on our local exhibit […]
We’d like to wish all of you a Happy Holidays! In celebration, we have decided to close both Saturday and Sunday of the coming week so we can all spend some extra time with our cherished friends and family. May you all be blessed with delicious food, joy that will […]
Most of you have seen that our very first Native American Cookery book was published and available for purchase. We were overjoyed to have so many recipes submitted, and torn when we had to choose which we had to exclude out of this volume. Then…we had a brilliant idea…. Get […]
We’ve gotten asked several times about different ways to donate to the museum. There’s the ones most people are aware of, like donations of artifacts or cash in our donation box. We’ve shared about putting us as your Non-profit of choice on AmazonSmile too! There’s volunteering your services, which we […]
You may have seen before that we recently got a grant to work on our local exhibit. We just received one of our pieces that has been impressively reworked by the artist and long time volunteer, Helen Kennedy. Our mannequin was in desperate need of some work. Though she had […]