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How can museums create an environment where community members feel empowered to tell their own stories? The items in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection originate from places all around the world. Through the Community Curators program, museum staff and community members collaborate to access and engage with objects in the collections in meaningful ways to foster a more community-driven practice of storytelling and interpretation. Currently on display: Jeremy Red Eagle, Sisseton Wahpeton-Oyate, has been handcrafting traditional Dakota bows, arrows, games, outfits, and metalwork for years. In 2014, he moved to South Dakota’s Lake Traverse Reservation to reconnect with his Dakota roots by learning the language and enrolling in traditional art workshops. Red Eagle’s display includes custom copper cuffs and tells the partial story of the creation of the Dakota people.
