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EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2015


SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.


WASHINGTON


EXHIBITIONS OUR UNIVERSES: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHAPING OUR WORLD


OUR LIVES: CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND IDENTITIES (CLOSING ON JULY 6)


AS WE GROW: TRADITIONS, TOYS AND GAMES


WINDOW ON COLLECTIONS: MANY HANDS, MANY VOICES


RETURN TO A NATIVE PLACE: ALGONQUIAN PEOPLES OF THE CHESAPEAKE


COMMEMORATING CONTROVERSY: THE DAKOTA– U.S. WAR OF 1862 THROUGH DEC. 29, 2015


NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS THROUGH FALL 2018


THE GREAT INKA ROAD: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE OPENING ON JUNE 26


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COMMEMORATING CONTROVERSY: THE DAKOTA–U.S. WAR OF 1862 Through Dec. 29, 2015 Sealaska Gallery, Second Level In the late summer of 1862, a war raged across southern Minnesota between Dakota akicitas (warriors) and the U.S. military and immigrant settlers. In the end, hundreds were dead and thousands more would lose their homes forever. On Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hung in Mankato, Minn., by order of President Abraham Lincoln, the largest mass execution in United States history. The bloodshed of 1862 and its aftermath left deep wounds that have yet to heal. What happened 150 years ago continues to matter today. Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota– U.S. War of 1862 – an exhibition of 12 panels exploring the causes, voices, events and long- lasting consequences of the conflict – was produced by students at Gustavus Adolphus College, in conjunction with the Nicollet County Historical Society. The project was funded by Gustavus Adolphus College, the Nicollet County Historical Society, the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Min- nesota Historical Society and the people of Minnesota through a grant supported by an appropriation to the Minnesota His- torical Society from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS Through Fall 2018 Fourth Level Nation to Nation examines treaty-making between American Indians and European powers, and between American Indians and the nascent United States, when those treaties were serious diplomatic nation-to-nation agreements based on the recognition of each nation’s sovereignty. The exhibition then ex- amines the shift in U.S. policy toward Indians


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and the way the United States subsequently used treaties to gain land as it expanded westward. The exhibition ends by examining important 20th


century legislation upholding


American Indian treaty rights. More than 125 objects from the Museum’s collection and other lenders, including origi- nal treaties, archival photographs, wampum belts, textiles, baskets and peace medals will be featured.


THE GREAT INKA ROAD: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE June 26, 2015 – June 1, 2018 Third Level Construction of the Inka Road stands as one of the monumental engineering achieve- ments in history. A network more than 24,000-miles long, crossing mountains and tropical lowlands, rivers and deserts, the Inka Road linked Cusco, the administrative capital and spiritual center of the Inka world, to the farthest reaches of its empire. The road continues to serve contemporary Andean communities across Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as a sacred space and symbol of cultural continuity. In 2014, the United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, recognized the Inka Road as a World Heritage site. The Great Inka Road: Engineering an


Empire explores the foundations of the Inka Road in earlier Andean cultures, technolo- gies that made building the road possible, the cosmology and political organization of the Inka world, and the legacy of the Inka Empire during the colonial period and in the present day.


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