American Indian Heritage Month

November is American Indian Heritage Month.

Every year NRCS recognizes and celebrates the many different cultures to which we have the opportunity to offer our services and programs. One of the ways NRCS nationally celebrates American Indian Heritage Month is by distributing a poster created by an American Indian artist.

The 2008 poster, Touch the Earth….Conservation…..Our Passion….Our Heritage, was painted by Kathy Sturch, a member of the Choctaw Nation. Mrs. Sturch illustrated the connection the theme has with Choctaw’s kinship with all creatures, earth, sky, and water. The Indian Paintbrush in the foreground is symbolic of American Indians; natural, sturdy, proud and beautiful.

• American Indian Heritage Month Posters from 1991 to 2008
• President's National American Indian Heritage Month 2008 Proclamation
• Announcing American Indian Alaska Native Heritage Month
• A Brief History of American Indian Heritage Month
• Plants Culturally Significant to Native Americans

The following websites are some that offer more information about Native languages:

• Vocabulary Words in the Algonquian Language Family - Native Language Comparison Chart (Native Languages of the Americas website)
• Native American Sign Language by William Tomkins (Boys Scouts website)
• Online Interactive Crow Language Program (Yellowstone Western Heritage Museum’s American Indian Tribal Histories Project website)

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This poster is available in Adobe Reader format.

2008 poster, Touch the Earth….Conservation…..Our Passion….Our Heritage, (PDF; 494 KB)

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