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On the city's lakefront to perform a chant to greet the sunrise, Chicago-based Hula practitioners gather around an `ipu heke, a traditional Hawaiian percussion implement made of two gourds.

Chicago’s Legacy Hula Virtual Tour

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Native Truths Virtual Tour

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Photo: Betye Saar in 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California; photographer David Sprague.

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Dr Bill Parkinson addresses visiting museum directors from Europe at the Field Museum opening of the First Kings of Europe exhibition in late March 2023.

First Kings of Europe in Budapest

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An Earlier Great Wall of China

Evolution of Human Reproduction

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Cultures of Mesoamerica and Central America

View of the circular interior of the Pawnee Earth Lodge, with various replica objects displayed around the circular hearth in the center and on the walls.

Pawnee Earth Lodge

Woolly Dogs

Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories

Amerika Samoa exhibition co-curator, Reggie Meredith Fitiao works on a community-made siapo (painted cloth) featured in the temporary exhibition located in the Regenstein Halls of the Pacific.

Amerika Samoa

Regenstein Halls of the Pacific

Chicago’s Legacy Hula

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Inside Ancient Egypt

Visitors explore a bird’s-eye view replica of Teotihuacan, the largest city in the Americas (and one of the largest in the world) between AD 100 and 700.

Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas

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Aliyah Young

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Jamie Kelly

Societies around the world have buried their dead at home. Anthropologists want to understand why the practice started, and why it has largely disappeared.

Field Museum Establishes Endowed Legal Fellowship Honoring Cultural Heritage Law Pioneer Dr. Patty Gerstenblith

Field Museum debuts Chicago’s Legacy Hula the first exhibition to explore the migration of Native Hawaiians to Chicago

New Field Museum exhibition Chicago’s Legacy Hula anchors inaugural  Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Gone, but not forgotten: How an extinct dog breed still lives on through memory and tradition in Coast Salish communities

Ancient burial practices and DNA research reveal that family goes beyond genetic relatedness

New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome

New exhibition sheds light on thriving traditional Samoan art in American Samoa

Archaeologists measured and compared the size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about the history of inequality. They found that it’s not inevitable.

Ancient tools from a South African cave reveal connections between prehistoric people

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Basket Making Discussion & Demo: Lorene Sisquoc and Kelly Church

Basket Making Demonstration with Lorene Sisquoc

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The Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor

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Why is it so Important for Us to Tell Our Stories? - Karen Ann Hoffman

Karen Ann Hoffman on Claiming Space

Karen Ann Hoffman on Art

Making Fry Bread with Chef Jessica Pamonicutt

Chef Jessica Pamonicutt Discusses Cooking and Fry Bread

Why is it Important for Us to Tell Our Stories? - Brian Vallo

Why is it Important for us to Tell Our Stories? - Kelly Church

Why is it Important for Us to Tell Our Stories? - Debra Yepa-Peppan

Karen Ann Hoffman- Native People are Still Here

Why Must We Tell Our Own Stories? - Ronnie Preston

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Native Truths: Come Alive By Nicole Emmons

Our Voices, Our Stories

The Great Bear Hunt, narrated by Karen Ann Hoffman

An ancestor from one of Michigan’s Odawa communities made this quillwork box, ca. 1890-1910, for sale to tourists. Such baskets were, and still are, created for utilitarian use.

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Mashteuiatsh Sharing Project: Solving Complex issues with Good Will

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A part of dress called kiekie, an ornamental girdle worn by women in the Kingdom of Tonga around the waist and over a skirt or tupenu (wrapped garment) underneath.  This kiekie was purchased for the Museum’s collections *by Regenstein Collections Manager Christopher J. Philipp in 2010.  Temporary Number T2010.0017.  © The Field Museum, Photographer Christopher J. Philipp.

Polynesian Collections

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Detail of mahau - exterior porch panels from Ruatepupuke II – wharenui – Maori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Catalog Number 967.143961. © The Field Museum, A109973_15c, Photographer Ron Testa.

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Culture: Research

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South American Anthropology: Research

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South and Central American Archaeological Ceramic Treatment

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Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories and the TEAACH Act

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A three-quarter view of the front of the Maori Meeting HouseCarvings decorate the house’s walls and beams. At the apex of the gabled roof are two carved faces. One is Ruatepupuke, for whom this house is named.

Maori Meeting House, Ruatepupuke II

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Maori Meeting House Ruatepupuke II

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