An American Indian chief conducted an ancient tribal ceremony Friday to bless the first building to be completed at the site of the American Indian Museum and Cultural Center.

- Booksigning, "A Run Up The Coast — A Story of Freedom," by Gene Lewis, noon, Fort Bragg Library, and 5 p.m., Four Eyed Frog, Gualala. - Native Daughters meeting, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Hall, Main Street, Fort Bragg. 964-5812.

More than 50 dresses are on view in ?Identity by Design? at the New York branch of the Smithsonian?s National Museum of the American Indian.

“Autumn Abstractions� – Winthrop Gallery’s new show – plus Saturday night’s October Winthrop Artwalk add cultural activities to the Old Western town’s ambiance this week.

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Author Joseph Marshall says American Indian people should tell their own stories.

Want to rustle up an exotic menu at home? Step into any of the exclusive outlets for your ingredients and more A trip through the winding alleys of INA market was once firmly inked in the to-do list of every traveller, expatriate and local resident fancying an exotic meal at home.

In less than a decade, Dan Albrecht has catapulted himself into the world's top tier of collectors of Inuit art.

Since its incorporation a century ago, Wapato's repeated waves of migration created what is probably the most ethnically diverse city in the entire Yakima Valley.

Don't expect cowboys and campfires at this Western art roundup.