NITCHEN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICA

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Program and Activities  - scroll down the page for the puppeteers

 

Program Highlights include:

- Puppet shows of Native stories
- Games
- Dancing
- Singing
- Indigenous Performers and teachers
- Craft workshops from a variety of regions and Native nations
- Artifact demonstration
- Gift shop/trading post with quality educational materials, art projects, handmade souvenirs and jewelry
-Teacher Hospitality Center
-Resource materials/classroom aids/bibliographies

Students will have the opportunity to meet indigenous performers and teachers while learning about Native cultures of today as well as long ago.

 Kids can sit in a teepee, wear traditional and contemporary regalia, handle artifacts, participate in powwow dancing, create beautiful art, become informed on some Native issues of today and get to know some indigenous people who are also New Yorkers.

 

From year to year our adventurous tours into Native lifeways will visit the Dawnland of the Wabanaki, the most eastern region of the U.S.,

 

 

 

 

 

the icy far north of the Inupiat, the vast plains of the Lakota, the Southwestern painted deserts of the Navajo, the South American towering mountains of the Aymara, the South Sea volcanic islands of Native Hawaiians or the Florida swampy hillocks of the Seminoles. 

You can join us in our teachers lounge where materials are available that will help bring Native America into your 21st century classroom. 

Your visit will be fun, informative and inspiring for everyone.

 

The Puppeteers

Master puppeteer Tommy Cheng comes from the Manoa Valley on the island of O`ahu in Hawai`i. Tommy is a painter, actor and a musician. He has spent the past 16 years teaching New York City school children about Native people.

Puppeteer Candece Tarpley  is a member of the Blackfoot and Tsalagi Nations, and is an actress, playwright, dancer, storyteller and craftsperson. She has taught acting, poetry, Native crafts and culture to children in several East coast school systems.