The 4th Annual Honoring Native Nations Powwow on the Santa Fe Plaza is presented by the Santa Fe Indigenous Center. The Honoring Native Nations Powwow is on Monday, October 12, 2026, from 9 AM to 4:30 PM. The Honoring Native Nations Powwow is at the Santa Fe Plaza, 63 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe. The Honoring Native Nations Powwow is free.
At the powwow, art booths open at 9 AM. The Tesuque Pueblo Cottonwood Dancers are on the powwow schedule on the Santa Fe Plaza on Monday morning. At the powwow, the Champion Hoop Dancers of the Southwest dance at 10 AM. At the powwow, Mountain Eagle of Jemez Pueblo dances at 11 AM. At the powwow, the Grand Entry and Parade of Nations is at noon, and the closing is at 4:30 PM. At the Honoring Native Nations Powwow, food trucks are open throughout the day.
The public is welcome at the powwow, and visitors are asked to be respectful. The Santa Fe Indigenous Center made a powwow etiquette video to teach the public about respect when attending powwows, especially for first-timers.
In Albuquerque, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque holds Indigenous Peoples' Day on October 12 from 9 AM to 7 PM. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center event is campus-wide, at the Cultural Center and across 12th Street at Avanyu Plaza. At the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Native artists and vendors are there all day.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center dance schedule includes the Sky City Buffalo Ram Dancers of the Pueblo of Acoma at 10 AM, the Cellicion Traditional Dance Group of the Pueblo of Zuni at noon, and the Hopi and Tewa Dance Group at 3 PM. At Avanyu Plaza, from 11 AM to 7 PM, there is face painting, a live painter, a photobooth and a kids coloring station. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center lists times and locations as subject to change.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is at 2401 12th Street NW, Albuquerque, and is open 9 AM to 5 PM daily. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center event is free for members or with admission.
This week on Museum Hill
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is closed Mondays from October through April for winter hours. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is open 10 AM to 5 PM on its open days. At the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, admission is $7 for New Mexico residents and $12 for non-residents. Children 16 and younger get free admission at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is free every Wednesday for New Mexico seniors 60 and older with ID. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is at 710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail.
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM, and closed Mondays. The Wheelwright Museum is at 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe. Wheelwright Museum admission is $10, and it is free for museum members, Native Americans, children under 12, students with ID and active duty military.
The Wheelwright Museum exhibition Silver Honors Stone: The Work of Julian Lovato runs through October 17, 2026. The Wheelwright Museum exhibition Gestural In Form runs through November 1, 2026. Gestural In Form shows over twenty-five works by Virgil Ortiz of Cochiti Pueblo from the 1980s to the 2020s, plus work by his family. The Wheelwright Museum's permanent Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry features more than 700 artworks on Navajo and Pueblo jewelry traditions.
Downtown at MoCNA
The IAIA campus and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts are closed on Monday, October 12, 2026, for the holiday. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is at 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is open Monday and Wednesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sunday 11 AM to 4 PM, and is closed Tuesdays. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts offers free admission to all guests on Fridays. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is always free for Native and Indigenous peoples. At the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Dakota Mace: 2026, Shimasani Bila (My Grandmother's Hand) runs through January 3, 2027.
Good manners on a Pueblo visit
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center asks visitors to call a Pueblo directly at least two days before a visit to make sure the community will be open to visitors. Although most Pueblos are open to the public during daylight hours, the homes are private. Tribal dances are religious ceremonies, not public performances.
At most Pueblos, photographing, sketching or painting on location needs a permit, and some Pueblos do not allow photography at any time. Once a photo permit is obtained, always ask permission before taking a photograph of a tribal member. Silence is mandatory during all Pueblo dances and ceremonies: no questions, no interviews with participants, no walking across the dance plaza, and no applause.
Kivas, ceremonial rooms and cemeteries are restricted to Pueblo members only. On feast days, enter a home only by invitation, and it is courteous to accept an invitation to eat but not to linger, and a payment or tip is not appropriate. Do not remove artifacts, pottery sherds or other items from a Pueblo. Start and finish times for Pueblo ceremonies are set by nature and by the sequence of events, not the clock.
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