Native America Calling: Native impressions of the nation’s 250th year celebrations

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Native America Calling: Native impressions of the nation’s 250th year celebrations

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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Native impressions of the nation’s 250th year celebrations

Oregon’s only contribution to a time capsule organized for the America250 commemoration is a pin by Lillian Pitt, an artist from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs known for her focus on Native Americans’ 12,000 years of history.

In a statement, Pitt says she’s gratified that the work will remind the people who open the capsule 250 years from now “of those who have made this land their home since time immemorial.” Titled “She Who Watches,” her work is a depiction of Tsagaglala, a chief who was transformed into stone to watch over her people and the Columbia River.

Meanwhile, the National Museum of the American Indian is compiling a quilt with panels created in a series by different artists. The collaborative project offers interpretations of the country’s history through a Native lens.

These are among the many contributions by Native individuals and organizations during the nation’s semiquincentennial.

Guests on Native America Calling

Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs, Navajo, and Yakama), executive director of The Museum at Warm Springs in Oregon

Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco, and Yakama), artist

Gabriel Frey (Passamaquoddy), artist

Tracy Goodluck (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Muscogee), executive director of the Center for Native American Youth

Emma Alcazar (Chickasaw), a designer for the National Museum of the American Indian’s Quilt Along