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■ NEW EXHIBITS Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, Calif.—“The Road to Aztlán: Art from a Mythic Homeland” explores the nature of ancient interactions between the American Southwest and portions of Mexico as revealed in shared features of art, architecture, agriculture, and religious beliefs and ceremonies dating back to as early as 1200 B.C. (213) 857-6000 (Through August 26)
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Red Earth Museum
Oklahoma City, Okla.—The new exhibit “Earth & Water: Lifeways of the California Indians” explores the artistic and cultural similarities and differences between north, central, and southern California tribes from prehistoric to modern times. A large collection of baskets, cradleboards, shell ornaments, clothing, and other historic and prehistoric artifacts from the various tribes will be on display. (405) 427-5228 (Through September 3) Dickson Mounds Museum
Lewistown, Ill.—A major new exhibit from the collections of the Illinois State Museum, “Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest” features a large, rarely seen collection of early historic pottery from the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico. (309) 547-3721 (Through October 21) Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Vergennes, Vt.—“The Burlington Schooner Project” will build a reproduction 1862-class sailing canal boat at Burlington Harbor, modeled after the General Butler and the O. J. Walker, two historic shipwrecks located within a mile of the proposed construction site that have been the subject of intense american archaeology
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historical and archaeological study. The new schooner, Louis McClure, named after a major contributor, will become a harbor-side educational exhibit illustrating how the lake was used for commerce during the 19th century and teaching visitors about the history and archaeology of the Champlain Valley. (802) 475-2022 (Open to the public June 21)
■ CONFERENCES & FESTIVALS Native Voices 2001: American Indian Lecture Series
Selected Mondays at 6 P.M. through October 29, Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, N.M. Southwest Seminars presents this free public series of lectures by native peoples and scholars. The series is underwritten by Hotel Santa Fe, a Picuris Pueblo enterprise, and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. For a list of speakers and dates see www.SouthwestSeminars.org or call (505) 466-2775. Fort Ancient State Memorial Celebration
June 9–10, Oregonia, Ohio. Visit this 2,000-year-old Hopewell site for a celebration of Native American heritage with storytelling, traditional dances, and food, games, vendors, demonstrations, and hands-on activities for the entire family. (513) 932-4421 San Diego Museum of Man’s 18th Annual Indian Fair
June 9–10, San Diego, Calif. Breathtaking Native American dancers, skilled artisans, mouth-watering traditional fare, and quality
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Indianapolis, Ind.—The Canadian Museum of Civilization’s traveling exhibition “Iqqaipaa: Celebrating Inuit Art, 1948–1970” presents a fascinating glimpse of arts created by the indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic, now known as Nunavut. The delicately carved bone, ivory, and stone works—many of which have never been shown in the United States—are the works of a people who were forced to abandon their nomadic lifestyle in the 1940s. (317) 264-1724 (June 9–September 30)
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