As part of the recent adoption of our Land Acknowledgement, and in celebration of the start of Native American Heritage Month, Glessner House hosted this meaningful discussion about the creation of the new permanent exhibition, Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, at the Field Museum.

This online presentation was given by curator Alaka Wali and Debra Yepa-Pappan, a citizen of the Jemez Pueblo, who served as coordinator of community engagement. Over the course of four years, more than 130 Native Americans across the country, representing 105 tribes, were engaged in the process of creating the content and presentation, which is widely regarded as the most significant change to a permanent exhibition in any major Chicago museum in decades.