[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 83 (Monday, May 16, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E506-E507]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     CONGRATULATING THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ON ITS NEW 
           EXHIBITION--NATIVE TRUTHS: OUR VOICES, OUR STORIES

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                          HON. DANNY K. DAVIS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 16, 2022

  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I am fortunate to 
represent a District with so many wonderful museums and cultural 
organizations that help make Chicago such a vibrant city.
  One of these is the world-famous Field Museum of Natural History, 
which was founded in 1893 and whose exhibitions, research, education, 
and conservation programs attract more than one million onsite visitors 
each year.
  The Museum's 1,300,000-square-foot, 1921 landmark building on 
Chicago's lakefront resides on the ancestral homelands of the Three 
Fires Confederacy: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi. The area was also a 
site of trade, gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Native 
tribes. The state of illinois is currently home to more than 100,000 
tribal members.
  I rise today to congratulate the Field Museum on its groundbreaking 
new exhibition, Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, which replaces 
and reimagines its former Native North America Hall and opens to the 
public on May 20.
  Over four years in the making, Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories 
features stories by Native American people of self-determination, 
resilience, continuity, and the future. It was conceived through 
extensive collaboration with more than 100 partners and Tribes, 
including Native American scholars, community leaders, artists, and 
museum professionals.

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  Throughout opening weekend, May 20, 21 and 22, 2022, visitors can 
engage with artists and collaborators through a series of free 
demonstrations and workshops that celebrate the thriving, modern 
culture of today's Native communities from across the country. Visitors 
can learn about basket weaving, see bead making, hear hand drums, 
listen to poetry, and more.
  I commend the Field Museum for undertaking what many are saying is a 
fresh, dynamic, and more representative depiction of the Native 
American experience both past and present.
  Madam Speaker, I invite you and my esteemed House colleagues to come 
to Chicago and experience the Field Museum's newest exhibition first 
hand.

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