Native American educational programs for all ages, in a wigwam that seats 15-20.
Topics: Eastern woodland culture of the 1700s, the Trade Era, historic clothing, stereotypes, present day awareness, Indian place-names, influential Native people, and the importance and uses of rivers, plants, trees, taught at schools, museums & historic sites, by Jennifer Lee of Algonkian Indian Heritage.
7th grade students comment: When I stepped into the wigwam it was as if I had stepped into an Indian village from hundreds of years ago. It surprised me how much work she put into this visit.
The wigwam is furnished with baskets of bark & wood splint, gourds, clay pots, & Indian tanned furs. Clothing of deerskin, wool, and linen, beadwork, ribbonwork, quillwork, traditional bow and arrows, quiver, drum & rattles are all part of the display. The seating is Native-tanned bear-, beaver-, and deer-furs on top of balsam fir boughs that bring a beautiful aroma, as well as providing a cushioned seat.
