Native American culture is alive in Chicago — you just have to know where to look.
One of America’s last remaining Native birchbark canoe builders launches elaborate 16-foot hunting boat constructed at Northwestern: ‘We don’t just take, we give back.’If you want to connect with Native experiences — today or otherwise — here are Starr’s suggestions for where to go, and what to see, with excerpts from the Tribune stories dedicated to them:A runner passes by a mural called"Indian Land Dancing" at Foster Avenue and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago on Aug. 6, 2015.
The 3,400-square-foot expanse of concrete in the Edgewater neighborhood provided a challenging but promising place for the project, which brought together a collaboration of artists, community members and youthful volunteers.An exhibit on Walks With The Young Nation , a Sicangu Lakota hip-hop artist, is part of the Field Museum's"Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories" permanent exhibit in Chicago, seen May 24, 2022.
“Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories,” which opened in May, is a long-awaited corrective. A four-year project, the permanent exhibit replacing the former Native North America displays brings the history of Native American life in dialogue with its kaleidoscopic present.Debra Yepa-Pappan, who coordinates Native community engagement at the Field, says she’s received a flood of requests by Indigenous groups to visit the new exhibit, all of which she’s committed to accommodating.
“Just because the exhibition is open now, that’s not the end. That’s the beginning,” Yepa-Pappan says. “The exhibition needs to be viewed as also living and thriving.”Cousins Aria Tucker, left, and Akio Pochel-Peters, both 4, help shape a large-scale mound, a public earthwork installation, at Schiller Woods-West forest preserve on Oct. 9, 2019.If you head to Schiller Park, a massive serpent will greet you.
Made from soil and ancestral dirt from numerous tribal lands in the nation, Pokto Činto is a concept from the neighboring community and area organizations to pay homage to those who inhabited the land before colonization. But it’s the creation of Indigenous futurist artist Santiago X, a citizen of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and the Indigenous Chamoru from the island of Guam.
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