Month

Celebration

January

Iroquois Midwinter Ceremony (Aboriginal)
Lasts for 8 days and each day is dedicated to an event.

February

Black History Month

March

National Women’s History Month

April

Multicultural Communications Month

May

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

June

Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

July

Sun Dance Ritual (Aboriginal)
For many tribes of the plains states, the Sun Dance was a major communal religious ceremony lasting four days and involving sacrifice and supplication to insure harmony between all living beings.

Green Corn Ceremony (Aboriginal)
Performed by some Oklahoma tribes as a time of renewal. The ritual involves sweat lodge ceremonies, dances, offerings, and fasting.

August

Hopi Snake Dance (Aboriginal)
Requires two weeks of ritual preparation, snakes are gathered and kept watch over by children.  The dancers take an emetic and dance with the snakes in their mouths with an Antelope Priest in attendance. 
After the dance, the snakes are released to carry their prayers.

Native Wild Rice Harvest (Aboriginal)
Northern Cree, Ojibwa and other Algonkian tribes of southern Canada, Montana and the northern plains states.  Celebrated during the last full moon in August.

September

National Hispanic Heritage Month

October

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

November

National Native American Awareness Month

December

Universal Human Rights Month