Bozeman Magazine

For many years, Native American communities weren’t given the opportunity to tell their own stories in museums. As a response to this, with respect to Indigenous history, the Field Museum’s newest special exhibition will kick off its nationwide tour at Museum of the Rockies on May 28. The lecture is free and open to the public. Festivities celebrating the new summer exhibit will begin on March 17 at 6 p.m. in the Hagar Auditorium when Nina Sanders, curator of historic and contemporary Native American art at the University of Chicago and curator of the Field Museum’s new traveling exhibit “Apsáalooke Women and Warriors” will discuss the exhibit’s importance and its relevance to Montana. "Apsáalooke Women and Warriors” was created in partnership with members of the Apsáalooke community, the Field Museum, and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. The exhibit highlights the art and culture of the Apsáalooke (pronounced “Ahp-SAH-luh-guh”) people, also known as the Crow. It will feature historical and contemporary cultural material, from historic battle shields to high-end fashion designs, and will explore the powerful roles that women and warriors hold in the complex society of the Apsáalooke Nation, a living people of the Northern Plains.