Native American exhibit leaving Capitol after June 14
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The first exhibit on Northwest Indian tribes ever displayed at the Capitol will be coming down after June 14, but will soon appear elsewhere in Washington for all to see.
The exhibit about Washington’s Native Americans has been on display in the front lobby of the Office of Secretary of State for the past year.
The free and privately funded exhibit, called “We’re Still Here, The Survival of Washington Indians,” can be seen weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the office’s front lobby, located in the Northwest corner on the second floor of the Legislative Building. The exhibit was created by the Washington State Heritage Center, part of the Office of Secretary of State.
This rare exhibit about Native Americans in Washington acknowledges their early and continuing story in four major themes: the struggle over land, the conflict over Native identity, the battle for treaty fishing rights, and the cultural revival of Indian customs and language in our world today.
If you haven’t seen the exhibit and can’t make it to Olympia before it’s taken down, don’t worry because it will be displayed at the Anacortes Museum & Maritime Heritage Center from this August through April 2014. Then it will move to Ilwaco where it will be shown at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum from May 2014 to October 2014.
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Secretary of State
Steve Hobbs
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