Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

4/1/1986 - 3/31/1989

Funding Totals

$300,000.00 (approved)
$300,000.00 (awarded)


The Way to Independence: An Exhibition on Hidatsa Social History

FAIN: GM-22978-86

Historical Society of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN 55102-1903)
Nicholas K. Westbrook (Project Director: June 1985 to July 1989)

To support a traveling exhibition, a catalogue, and educational programming ex-ploring the transition from traditional Hidatsa Plains Indian society to modernreservation life by focusing on three Hidatsa whose lives spanned the period from about 1840 to 1920.