[nativestudies-l] Native Voices, New England Exhibit at Boston Children's Museum

[Lowe, Shelly C]

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Native Voices Exhibit
Opening January 28th

Native Voices, New England Tribal Families is an introduction to native communities around New England today. By visiting five different communities from northern to southern New England, we learn a lot about Native American traditions and how modern families balance contemporary life with preservation of important cultural identities.

Created by Boston Children's Museum (BCM) and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Ocean Spray, this exhibit represents a unique collaboration between native advisors and the museum's exhibit design team. It builds on 60 years of collaboration between the Museum and native tribes in New England. The hands-on activities, compelling immersive environments, and evocative artifacts, both old and new provide a great way to learn about how all cultures preserve important values and hand them down from one generation to the next. The exhibit will be at BCM through August 2012 before traveling to museums throughout the United States.

Native Voices: New England Tribal Families was created in collaboration with a distinguished Native American advisory board of tribal members, historians and academics. Much of the exhibit media, and most of the exhibition text, were prepared by members of the tribes featured in the exhibition.