Exhibitions - Tribal Paths

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Heebe-Tee-Tse Shoshone Tribe (Eastern Band)

Tribal Paths: Colorado's American Indians, 1500 to Today

Five hundred years of tragedy and triumph.
Lives, forever changed.
Traditions, never forgotten.
American Indian history is Colorado’s history.

Experience Tribal Paths, a powerful new exhibit now showing
at the Colorado History Museum. 

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
In 2005, the Colorado History Museum opened a landmark exhibit, Ancient Voices: Stories of Colorado’s Distant Past, which actively explores the culturally rich lives, art, architecture and technology of Colorado’s first peoples. The museum has picked up in time where Ancient Voices left off with Tribal Paths: Colorado’s American Indians, 1500 to Today.

Tribal Paths examines trade networks that linked Colorado’s American Indians with groups from the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi River, encounters with newcomers, the removal of tribes to reservations, the boarding school experience, and American Indian civil rights—as well as contemporary American Indians’ enduring connections to their cultures.

Together, these two exhibitions present one of the most comprehensive interpretive museum experiences available in the Denver metro area about the state’s American Indians.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Family Programming - The Colorado History Museum invites families for “Let’s Make History,” a Saturday program with activities for all ages from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The program is free with museum admission and admission is free for children 12 and under on Saturdays. Click here to see the “Let’s Make History” programs that include themes from the new Tribal Paths exhibit.

In April 2007, a Symposium entitled, "What is Indian?" was held at the Colorado History Museum. Speakers included Richard Williams, American Indian College Fund; Phyllis Bigpond, Denver Indian Family Resource Center; Jerilyn DeCoteau, University of Denver School of Law; Bunky Echo-Hawk, visual artist, writer, and cultural activist; and Darius Smith, Denver Anti-Discrimination Office. Notes from the symposium can be found here.

RESOURCE CENTER
To learn more about Colorado's American Indians click here to visit the Tribal Paths Resource Center.

OUR PARTNERS
The Colorado Historical Society would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support:
Anschutz Foundation
Whiting Petroleum Corporation
St. Mary Land & Exploration Company
Karsh + Hagan
US Bank
The Colorado Trust
Evan and Elizabeth Anderman
Anschutz Family Foundation
Wagner Equipment Co
and

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