NMAI's 2013 Animation Celebration! Looking North takes place every day through Sunday, March 17. The shorts are made in a variety of animation styles, like digital, stop-motion and hand-drawn, and since each one is only 3 to 16 minutes long, they're perfect for tots with short attention spans.

Screenings take place at 10:30am, 11:45am, 1pm and 3pm and are totally free. The lineup includes:

• Walk-in-the-Forest – a look at the secret world of the forest as viewed by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
• The Bear Facts – a reimagining of how Inuits met Europeans, in which one is a savvy hunter and the other an ill-equipped explorer (guess who's who)
• How People Got Fire – a mixture of Yukon storytelling and rotoscope animation that won the World Indigenous Film Award for best animation
• The Owl and the Raven – an Inuit legend about how ravens became black told via puppets
• I Am But a Little Woman – images of moose and geese jump into a woman’s embroidery

Visit the website for the complete schedule. And remember, the museum has lots of other things to explore including the animal illustrations of Julie Buffalohead and the permanent exhibition Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, which gives families a great introduction to Native American cultures.

Looking for more offbeat non-Hollywood movies? Check out our post about film festivals for kids in NYC.