Displays include artifacts, photomurals, maps, and a topographical model of the reservation. The last exhibit, A Tribal Portrait , features large black and white portraits of individual tribal members and families. The photographs in both galleries are by the Native American artist David Neel. The oral testimonies of approximately 50 tribal members on issues of family, community, tradition, land and their past, present and future, are heard throughout the exhibits. The journey back in time begins in a simulated glacial crevasse.
Visitors step onto an escalator or into an elevator and travel down into a glacier.
They see dripping water, feel chilling air, and hear the recorded sounds of an actual glacier, with its creaking ice and whistling winds. This area explores the impact of the Wisconsin Glacier on landforms in North America as well as its regional and local effects. A large model of the earth, displaying the advancing and retreating activity of the Wisconsin Glacier, photos of glacial impact on the reservation site, a tactile model, and text are part of the exhibit. The Arrival of the People A gallery features contemporary works by nine Native artists that visually represents the creation story of each artist s tribe. To complement the artwork, video segments on view in an adjacent mini-theater shows storytellers relating Kwakiutl, Kiowa, Cayuga and Mohave creation stories in their own languages.