For more than a century, Pendleton Woolen Mills has had a deep connection with the Native American community. Pendleton Woolen Mills is expanding on this connection with a new philanthropic initiative to support key community needs. Pendleton has committed to provide yearly grants to nonprofits that support Native American language preservation and help strengthen Native Americans in their journey to serve the community as healthcare professionals. These philanthropic partnerships will be supported by a portion of sales from products that incorporate the Chief Joseph pattern, with a commitment of at least $100,000 annually.
A new Denver exhibit uses the future to tell the past of the most successful Indigenous uprising in North America. In 1680, a group of Indigenous people rose up against Spanish colonizers near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now, History Colorado is debuting a new exhibit inspired by the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. But the exhibit does much more than help viewers digest the past. In fact, it looks to Native people’s future — using science fiction and fantasy. Virgil Ortiz is an award-winning artist from Cochiti Pueblo whose work appears in museums all over the world. Ortiz uses the mix of old and new, future and history, to focus on the most successful Indigenous uprising against a colonizing power in North American history: the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. The uprising saw the Pueblos rebel against the Spanish invaders and the religious, economic, and political systems they imposed. Ortiz notes the history of the revolt isn’t taught in schools or recorded in many history books.
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