Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Native American Museum

I am a Native American born and raised in Jamestown, Virginia. It was always just my father and I, my mother passed away when I was an infant, so my father raised me to be an independent woman. My father is the head commander of the tribe. He only allowed me to go to the village near our tents. I never went further than the village, till this one day that I was feeling so curious about what was out there, so I decided to walk beyond the village to see what there is to explore.

wasn't that big and nice. The land is actually in bad conditions when we got there and it still is now. The U.S. soldiers told us that this will be our new home and we had to stay here. If we left, then we might have been prosecuted and worst of all killed. They also said that this is a reservation and by law we had to stay here for now. I went toward the U.S. soldiers and ask, them what was a reservation? They said it was an area of land given by the government for Native Americans to occupy.My face was turning red, I was enraged because we were told to move away from our terrain and to adjust our lives to be on a reservation. We are humans, just like them, meaning we should be treated the same as them and not be set aside like if we something meaningless. In the reservations, we couldn't survive with these kinds of conditions because we need it to hunt buffaloes. buffaloes are our main source that provided almost everything needed to survive. Buffalo provided us with food, tools, weapons, and clothing. It wasn't possible for us to hunt buffalo in reservations because buffaloes, where it usually found in reservations or near reservations.Most Native Americans and I were crying because we lost our spirits a fight. We lost our spirit to fight because the United States troops and the government took our land that was rightly ours, most Native Americans died during the trails of tears. They made us move to a horrible place with the worst conditions that mankind could have imagined.The conditions of the houses on the reservation had the same conditions of a reservation overall. The houses in the reservations are tenements because the houses were poorly built. The ceilings of the houses were poorly built because it seemed that it was going to fall down in view of the fact that the rain made the ceiling fall apart. In the circumscribed land, there wasn’t a multitudinous quantity of stores. The stores

Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century exhibit was reflected everything that was covered in anthropology class, such as the influence of imperialism taking over Native American culture and society. “This exhibition, organized by the Pueblo of Isleta, tells the story of life on the Isleta Indian Reservation in the 19th century and its lasting effects on life today.” The Smithsonian press release explain that “In 1881, the railroad companies forcibly took land in the center of Isleta Pueblo in the Rio Grande Valley and the rail lines built there brought scores of tourists.” Overall, the Time Exposures portray the Isleta Pueblo Native American lives before the arrival of other visitors. Furthermore, the changes imposed on the Natives in the subsequent years, along with the ways in which the people of Isleta Pueblo attempted to preserve their way of life. “’Time Exposures’ is divided into three parts. In the first section, the cycle of the Isleta traditional year as it was observed in the mid-19th century is detailed. The second section describes the arrival of the Americans and the how this disrupted the Isleta way of living. In the third section, the exhibit examines the photos themselves as products of an outside culture. While exploring the underlying ideas and values of the photos, the exhibition questions their portrayal of Isleta people and ways.”

Nunna dual Isunyi, the “Trail Where We Cried,” is what the Cherokees call one of the darkest chapters of American history (Pritzker). Despite the Native Americans adopting a great deal of white American customs and European-style economic practices, yet they were removed from their homelands and relocated to state reserves due to the ideology of manifest destiny and the insatiable American greed. The main victims were the Five “Civilized” Tribes: Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee.

I am Tisquantum, or as you may know me, Squanto. I am the last of my tribe. I was taken from my homeland, the Americas as a slave to Spain. From Spain, I traveled to England, Newfoundland, and back again to my homeland, near Plymouth. I am now free, but use my land, animal, and English knowledge to assist the new settlers of Plymouth in a multitude of ways; I also use my influence with the natives and the Colonists for my own benefit. Unfortunately, I died an early death, but my legacy remains today, with the national holiday of Thanksgiving (Tindall & Shi, 2013).

To start off, a Natural History Museum is usually a place where the public can visit to obtain knowledge on the history of the earth and its inhabitants. Much about people’s culture and customs is found in a Natural History museum, especially people that have made a difference or played a role in history that we learn today. Therefore, the Indigenous peoples are represented in these precise museums. The indigenous people have various amount of customs that are even used today, however, the fact that many of their descriptions are led by the word “histor” or “ancient” almost makes the guests at museums believe that these indigenous people are no longer alive, and that is incorrect. The key objective for a Natural History museum is to simply help connect the understanding of human beings, connections based on culture, communities, to the earth and to each other. Precisely, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles does not fully represent in depth the qualities that made the indigenous people so innovative, intelligent, and powerful; Therefore, the importance of the indigenous people is almost overshadowed by everything else that is presented at the museum. Overall, the indigenous people are represented here because of their

Meriwether Lewis asked William Clark and I to join him on an expedition into the unknown. We had to go west and explore the Louisiana territory that Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd president, had bought to expand the United States. This expedition will be the greatest change in history and I got to experience it. Traveling for 8,000 miles in two-in a half years only having one job; explore the new area and come back alive.

Since my parents made the drastic decision to move from the Navajo Reservation to Phoenix, I had always yearned for that sense of family I had back on the Navajo Reservation. For example, on the Navajo reservation, my family would put up a makeshift volleyball net made out of tree branches and rope and we would have the time of our lives hitting the volleyball back and forth on our “net”. So, if I had the opportunity, I would bring my community more closely together, because I would like for everyone to have a family – blood related or not.

The day had finally came, it was July 21st, 2020. I had been waiting for this day for what seemed like forever! I was beyond excited that of all artists, I was chosen to escort the Interplanetary Ambassador around our world and culture. Once I greeted him at the New York Space Port, I decided to take him to our very own Metropolitan Museum of Art located here in NYC. The ride from the space port to the Museum was a little over two hours and felt like forever. On the way there the Ambassador asked many questions about our clothes, food, money, and many of our everyday things that are around us. Then, out of nowhere he asked me a question that changed my life as an artist completely. He said, “In my planet we have clothes and money and everything that you humans have, but we do not have art. Can you please explain to me what this art thing is?”

My experience to the Dallas Museum of Art was a bit different from the last time I had attended the museum. I was curious to see what pieces of art there would be and if it would be the same as the previous visit which was long ago, but to me all the pieces of art were so different and very interesting. It may have been because I saw all the pieces in a new perspective since learning about the different types of paintings there can be and knowing how and where sculptures come from. Even though I do not know much of art I really gave it a try into seeing what the artist may have wanted us to get out of his work. By reading a view of the chapters made me aware of art, I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but it was actually nice knowing that a

On Wednesday afternoon, February 25, 2016, I drove myself to the Michael C. Carlos Museum which is located on the campus of Emory University in Decatur, Georgia for my second encounter report for HUMN1303. A day that had started out as a warm, albeit grey, winter morning had rapidly descended into a raw, windy and wet winter afternoon with a cold wind whipping around buildings, slicing through my clothes and chilling me to the bone. It put me in a bad mood as I detest cold weather. The approximately 6.5 mile drive from the Clarkston campus of Perimeter College a division of Georgia State University was fairly straightforward and without too much traffic via North Decatur Road. After driving onto the Emory University campus, I followed signage pointing me towards the Michael C. Carlos museum and the Fishburne parking deck which was relatively full, but I was able to slide into a spot that was being vacated, interestingly, by the exact same make and model of my own car, a Volvo C70 convertible. The Fishburne parking deck is located a short walk away from the entrance to the Michael C. Carlos building. It was a quick walk across a lovely old bridge and into the lower level of the museum building,

During my time at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, my mentor was Melody Paredes, a kind, easily amused, Hispanic woman. Prior to working at the museum she knew nothing about trains and was still learning details about them throughout my time as an intern. She would constantly compare herself to her colleagues feeling as if there was so much more she should be doing but unable to do anymore.

My classmates and I have taken a trip to the Philbrooke Museum in Tulsa, OK. Mrs. Selby told all of us to stay together but my friend and I thought it would be a good idea to have a tour on our own. We walked all around the Museum and found the basement. It was dark through the hallway until we reached the underground basement. It was filled with ancient mummies. We got to looking around and started hearing loud strange noises; all of a sudden the lights went out. We couldn’t see a thing. The coffins that the mummies were kept in started shaking, we knew then that this wasn’t good. We started running for the door but we couldn’t get there in time. One of the mummies had us cornered. I was scared for my life. Then strangely, the mummy that

Picture this, a little boy with giant glasses, entering the ginormous Perot Museum. A boy who couldn’t go to sleep the night before because he was extremely excited for his trip to the museum the next day. That boy was me during a hot summer day. My family and my friends went on a trip to the museum. For most people a trip to a museum would be boring, but for me it was an opportunity to learn. The first exhibit we went to was the dinosaur exhibit. We weren’t in a tour group, but I saw a group go by, and I listened to the tour guide as he explained the attractions at the dinosaur exhibit. So I followed the group learning more about the extinct species. Then my mother called me over so we could go to the next exhibit. I didn’t want to go, because

My trip to the Chicago’s Field Museum was very exhilarating. It was an amazing opportunity to visit a resourceful place that gave me a visual understanding of some of the concepts we learn in Physical geography.The Grainger Hall of gems exhibit is a display of many minerals species, also known as gems. They are arranged into specific categories across the exhibit. The categories are silicates, oxides, organic gems, elementals, and phosphates. These categories are based on general traits of the gems.The second exhibit, The Evolving Planets was about the first species and how the world’s changes affected them before species of today existed. The Evolving Planet exhibit is grouped by six different mass extinctions that occurred before there was