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The Navajo Nation Museum is a museum and library on Navajo ground in Window Rock, Arizona. Its collections, exhibits, and other activities focus on the cultural history of the Navajo people . Its activities include traditional museum exhibits, a research library, and programs that help to revive and preserve the Navajo language .
The Anthropology Section [14] of the Arizona Museum of Natural History conducts research and develops exhibitions on Native American cultures and the archaeology of southern Arizona. Archaeology has been a major focus of the museum since its inception in 1977.
The museum contains a 15 acres (6.1 ha) Native American Heritage Garden above 8-10 underground Native American pit-houses and hearths off-site. [5] An educational pathway runs through the garden. The pathway contains exhibits featuring Native American hunting gear, a wickiup, and a garden of plants used by Natives when they inhabited the area. [7]
Kate Cory, Buffalo Dancer, oil, 1919, Smoki Museum, Prescott, Arizona. The Museum of Indigenous People, formerly known as the Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture, [1] is located in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona and holds collections of Native American artifacts.
Intended to forcibly assimilate Arizona Native children into American culture, school policies prohibited the use of native languages and clothing and separated children from the same tribe. [20] Although the curriculum underwent heavy reform during the 1930s at the behest of reformist Bureau of Indian Affairs chief John Collier , the school ...
Deer Valley Rock Art Center Museum. This list of museums in Arizona encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum was founded in 1928 by zoologist Dr. Harold S. Colton and artist Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to preserving the history and cultures of northern Arizona and the Colorado Plateau. Ceramic vessels in the Babbitt Gallery
[2] [7] [8] It consists of two parts, that were on adjacent properties, and both associated with the same history. They were listed separately in the National Register of Historic Places as Pueblo Grande Ruin and Hohokam-Pima Irrigation Sites on the October 15, 1966 date when all National Historic Landmark sites were administratively listed.