From ‘Smoki People’ to Museum of Indigenous People

Founded in 1921, the non-Native, self-named “Smoki People” of Prescott, Arizona, appropriated Native dance and ceremony for nearly 70 years. Paradoxically, they also built a museum housing a collection worthy of interpretation, study and care.

The 100-year institutional history and its important de-colonial transformation to the Museum of Indigenous People will be presented in this lecture by former director and current School of Art Honors student Cindy Gresser.

• Museum website: https://www.museumofindigenouspeople.org/

• Research in the Arts