American Indian Heritage Celebration

The American Indian Heritage Celebration is an annual festival put on by the North Carolina Museum of History, honoring the American Indian tribes and cultures of this state. It comes in two parts: a virtual education day and an in-person celebration.

The in-person day is held at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The museum behind the festival is on East Edenton Street in downtown Raleigh, and its stated job is connecting people across North Carolina with the state’s past. The celebration is one of several festivals the museum runs each year.

What to know

• The museum cares for more than 150,000 artifacts from across North Carolina.
• Its work covers the whole state, from the coast to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
• Longleaf pine forests are among the regions its collections represent.
• The museum treats history as something people are still making every day.