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HMNS Scholars
We're sorry, this course has been cancelled. Please contact Daniel Burch at dburch@hmns.org for additional information.
Due to the success of last year’s inaugural course Discovering Ethiopia, a third course for high school students entitled Native American Archeology and Anthropology will be offered this fall.
Native American Archeology and Anthropology is made up of lectures, discussion groups and behind-the-scenes tours of the Hall of the Americas and the special exhibition Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey Through Indian Country 1925-1939 which will be on display at HMNS this fall. Prior to the three public lectures included in the course, the featured speaker will meet privately with the HMNS Scholar group. This course will also give students a look at careers in anthropology and archaeology.
Participants receive unlimited entrance to the Quest for High Bear exhibition during the duration of the course. In order to receive course certificate, students may not miss more than one session and must complete and present a presentation project.
Native American Archeology and Anthropology
Tuesdays, September 30 – November 4, and November 18, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
$84 per student
This course is for current High School Students only.
Course Sessions
Course Orientation
Tuesday, September 30, 5:45 p.m.
“Peopling the Americas”
Dirk Van Tuerenhout, Ph.D., HMNS Curator of Anthropology
Tuesday, October 7, 5:45 p.m.
By the modern era, the Americas were inhabited by hundreds of tribes. Dr. Dirk Van Tuerenhout will explain the population of the Americas from early humans in the Paleolithic.
Exhibition Tour of Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey Through Indian Country 1925-1939 & Hall of the Americas
Charles Asaud, HMNS Master Docent
Tuesday, October 14, 5:45 p.m.
“Collecting to Preserve the Past”
Gordon Smith, Collector
Tuesday, October 21, 5:45 p.m.
Gordon W. Smith of Forth Worth assembled a large collection of Native American artifacts from 1928 to 1943 representing most of the Native American tribes that lived in North America. Smith will share the vivid stories behind the collection including the befriending of tribal leaders with whom he earned trust and respect.
Hands-On Session
Charles Asaud, HMNS Master Docent
Tuesday, October 28, 5:45 p.m.
“Rewards of Repatriation”
Dorothy Lippert, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institution
Tuesday, November 4, 5:45 p.m.
Archaeologist Dorothy Lippert of the Choctaw Nation is a case officer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Repatriation Office, which is responsible for returning human remains and artifacts of cultural patrimony in the museum's collections to Native American tribes. Since 1990, the Smithsonian has returned nearly 88,000 funerary objects and more than 3,300 human remains, almost all of which came from archaeological excavations. Lippert will share her views about returning remains and redeeming archaeology in the eyes of Native Americans. Lippert is former education coordinator for HMNS Hall of Americas.
November 11
Class not meeting
Project Presentations
Tuesday, November 18, 5:45 p.m.
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