Julie Goldstein tell stories that delight and teach. Visitors will hear fun tales for children of all ages from two to two hundred. Learn how the Dakota lived before and after fur traders and others came to their land. Try out tools, eat samples of native foods, and play traditional games. Susan helps her audience glimpse the joys and struggles of wearing clothing of the past.
Visitors can try techniques once commonplace and now considered specialized crafts.
Museum staff will explain the use of planting, harvesting and processing tools used in market garden farming by early European farmers such as the Gibbs. Staff will assist visitors in using tools. Visit with experts who will explain the Native American and pioneer medicine gardens at the museum. Learn of the medicines used in centuries past, their continuing importance today as traditional remedies, and as a source of research for use in some of today's most deadly ailments. Karen Lacher leads an investigation of archaeology using excavations and material from sites at the museum.