“As a person who’s Deaf and Indigenous, my goal is to teach interpreters how to sign the way an Indigenous person would sign, whether it be at the sweat lodge, whether somebody is Navajo or Choctaw or Chickasaw. It’s important that they know those signs.” Today, we celebrate International Day of Sign Languages. At the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the program "Indigenous Voices of the Americas" celebrated twenty years of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the Natio

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