{"id":14602,"date":"2009-06-15T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14602"},"modified":"2009-06-15T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:02:58","slug":"skateboard-ramp-it-up-skateboard-culture-in-native-america-at-national-museum-of-the-american-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14602","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture In Native America at National Museum Of The American Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14603\" title=\"apache\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/apache.jpg\" alt=\"apache\" width=\"595\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/apache.jpg 595w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/apache-150x81.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/>The act of skating is eternally cool\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand what kid isn&#8217;t drawn to that? Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture In Native America shows how American Indians use this sport as a way of self-expression. And skate culture makes plenty of room for that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This exhibit at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum Of The American Indian has some noteworthy rarities\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding a 1969 Craig R. Stecyk III photo of a board adorned with native imagery, and a home movie of the Tavarez brothers from Stecyk&#8217;s legendary Zephyr surf team. But the stars are decks created by American Indian designers such as Bunky Echo-Hawk, Jim Murphy, Walt Pourier, Dustinn Craig, and Todd Harder, who founded the annual All Nations Skate Jam that&#8217;s co-sponsored by Vans&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.decider.com\/articles\/ramp-it-up-skateboard-culture-in-native-america-at,29158\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of skating is eternally cool\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand what kid isn&#8217;t drawn to that? Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture In Native America shows how American Indians use this sport as a way of self-expression. And skate culture makes plenty of room for that. This exhibit at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum Of The American Indian has some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14605,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}