Two Tribal Exhibitions At National Museum Of American Indian

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opens two new tribal community exhibitions in the “Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories” exhibition; the Blackfeet Nation of Browning, Mont., and Chiricahua Apache of Mescalero, N.M.

Both exhibitions were developed in collaboration with tribal community curators and National Museum of the American Indian’s curator Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota). This is the first time that new tribes have been rotated into the permanent galleries since the museum’s opening.

More than 30 objects will be displayed, including the actual 1855 Treaty of Lame Bull on loan from the National Archives to be displayed for six months and then replaced with a replica for preservation purposes and a porcupine-quilled shirt, the type that might have been worn at the time of the signing of the 1855 Treaty. Featured objects from the museum’s collections include items from a lodge (tipi), such as a parfleche bag made of rawhide and used for storing clothing, a woman’s beaded dress from 1890 and several other historic and contemporary objects.

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