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Native American History Day
November 2 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Native American History Day is happening at the Frontier Culture Museum on Saturday, November 2, 2024. We hope you’ll join us as we explore the history of Native American nations and how they shaped and contributed to American culture.
Be sure to join us at 1:00 PM for a lecture by Michael Galban focusing on the interactions between Indigenous peoples and European colonist.
Michael Galban is the Historic Site Manager of Ganondagan State Historic Site and the Director of the Seneca Art & Culture Center. Ganondagan is a 17th century Seneca town site and nationally regarded as a center for Iroquoian history, cultural and environmental preservation. His academic research focus is on Woodland Indian art/aesthetics, Indigenous semiotics and situated regard. Michael is in the Visual and Cultural Studies PhD program at the University of Rochester.
He has served on the board of directors of the Museum Association of New York (MANY), and currently serves on the editorial boards of the New York History and Rochester History Journals.
Michael recently collaborated with the Museé du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac on the exhibit “Wampum – Les Perles de la Diplomatie” which opened Spring of 2022 in Paris, of which the corpus of the exhibition traveled to Ganondagan in 2023 as “WAMPUM/OTGO:Ä”. His current project focuses on German and British officers collections of Northeastern Indigenous material formed in the American Revolutionary War Period.
This event is a general admission event and is included in the Annual Pass.