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American Family Field, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Mitchell Park Domes; these are all places Milwaukeeans enjoy regularly. However, few know the Indigenous history behind them. A group of ...
Map of Milwaukee print, circa 1835 showing founding fathers, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Menomonee rivers, and Kinnickinnic rivers (at this time, named Kinnickinnic creek) and Native American Indian ...
November is Native American Heritage Month, and the Milwaukee Public Museum is celebrating with a number of activities and events, starting with some opportunities to get into the museum free ...
Schools Class makes sure Native American youths never forget their rich heritage. The Youth Empowerment Program hosted at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center, which began in 2015, seeks to ...
Other Milwaukee Public Museum events during Native American Heritage Month. On Thursday, Nov. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the museum's anthropology curator, Dawn Scher Thomae, will give a free virtual ...
The Journal Sentinel has archival photos from 1958 of Milwaukee Public Museum displaying a skull and bones found in a Native American grave near Thiensville, north of Milwaukee in Ozaukee County.
Is it true? The Milwaukee Public Museum will not be taking the Native American powwow exhibit to their new digs (“Powwow scene won’t move with museum,” Aug. 18)? Who is making these ...
Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and locations of Native American tribes as they existed before contact with Europeans. That's why the Oklahoma man designed his own map.