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The mission of the museum is to teach history, and thats what we are. We are a history museum. What we use our pieces are pieces of native american art to tell our story, to tell the story that spans 16,000 to 18,000 years. We are set up chronologically. We start with the oldest time period, the paleo time period, and then go through different galleries, the archaic time period, the woodland time period, the mississippian time period, into the historic time period. The historic time period is separated from prehistoric because that is First Contact with europeans and how the europeans changed native american life. When the word indian is mentioned, we cant help it. We all do it, but we automatically think have this guy sitting on a spotted pony with a big headdress and a staff on the plains of nebraska, and thats what tv and movies have done to us. And so, what we do here is we the hundreds of different tribes and about their cultures and about how they lived, what they ate, how they d

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