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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2003 featured Mali (above) as well as Scotland and Appalachia. Photo by Marcia A. Smith.

AFRICAN AMERICAN


The African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC. Photo by Marcia A. Smith.

African Burial Ground

Carter G. Woodson House

Civil War Memorial

Lincoln Park Partners Project, Maryland

Museum Database: Association for African American Museums

National Museum of African American History and Culture Website

National Park Foundation: African American Experience Fund

National Underground Railroad Freedom
Center

Old Salem, Inc.: African Americans at Salem, North Carolina

Smithsonian Institution: African American Resources

AMERICAN INDIAN & ALASKA NATIVE


Kinishba Ruins on the Ft. Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona. Courtesy of White Mountain Apache Tribe.

Akwesasne Cultural Center

Alaska Native Heritage Center

Indian Community Profiles: Arizona Department of Commerce

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum

National Museum of the American Indian

Five State American Indian Project

Heard Museum

ASIAN AMERICAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER

Japanese Teahouse, Pcantico Hills, New York.

Japanese Teahouse, Pocantico Hills Historic Area, Westchester, New York. Photo by Michael Books, 1991-93, Historic American Buildings Survey.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Council

Chinese Cultural and Historical Project

Chinese Historical Society of America

Filipino American National Historical Society

Japanese American Museum of San Jose

Japanese American National Museum in California

Korean American Museum

Korean History Project

Life Interrrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas

Museum of Chinese in the Americas

Smithsonian Asian-Pacific American Program

HISPANIC AMERICAN

Arte Publico Press: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project
Chicano Humanities Arts Council
Chicano/Latino Network (CLNet): Virtual Museum
Cuban Heritage Collection: Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami, Florida
El Museo del Barrio, New York City
Library of Congress: Hispanic Reading Room
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

The Cuban-American Friendship Urn, also known as the "Maine Memorial," in Washington, DC. Photo by Michael R. Jobe.

Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives

Tejano Association for Historical Preservation, Texas

Texas Library Association: Illustrating Mexican-American History

Univerity of Texas at Austin: U.S. Latinos & Latinas in World War II Oral History Project

PAN-ETHNIC AMERICAN HERITAGE RESOURCES

View of Mali gate and U.S. Capitol dome, Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003.

A replica of the gate to the city of Djenne in Mali was built by masons from that city and displayed on the Mall in Washington, DC during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2003. Photo by Marcia A. Smith.