At AMNH Exhibitions, the Hall of Eastern Woodlands presents the lifeways and material culture of Indigenous nations from the forested Northeast, tracing how people built homes, made tools, traded, and adapted to seasonal change. The displays sit inside a New York institution that has long shaped public understanding of Native history, making the hall part of the city’s own cultural record. Its value is documentary and comparative, though it benefits from being read alongside contemporary Indigenous voices. Seen as a live museum setting, it asks what museums choose to preserve and how they frame it.
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