Photo by WENDY NAGATANIMike Goodlow.

A video of the ceremony can be seen at arts.WASHINGTON —?The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) honored the 2025 NEA National Heritage Fellows.

which sends its recommendations to the NEA chair.My own journey … began in 1942 at the age of 4 when we were put into an incarceration camp in Colorado.bit and spur maker and silversmith (Lovell.

traditional Lakota artist and educator (Omaha.Now I am here thanks to the unconditional support of my family — my late husband.

)Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America.

a centuries-old Japanese folk dance rooted in the Buddhist tradition of communal gathering to honor and celebrate the memory of ancestors.000 persons of Japanese ancestry.

are all part of the authoritarian.We have demanded that the injustices our families endured never happen again to anyone.

and forced to live in inhumane private for-profit prisons all over our country and the world.we are especially concerned that the historic sites that tell crucial stories of our countrys history — like Stonewall.