Events

An evening of ceremony, songs, brief talks, and a reception on the occasion of the opening of Kwel’ Hoy: Many Struggles, One Front, an exhibition that celebrates and connects communities protecting water, land, and our collective future.

This exhibition–the latest stop on the Lummi Nation’s Totem Pole Journey–connects the New Jersey science community’s efforts to protect the local watershed from the proposed PennEast Pipeline to the nearby Ramapough Lenape Nation’s struggle to stop the Pilgrim Pipeline, and the Lummi’s struggles to protect the waters of the Pacific Northwest from oil tankers and pipelines.

Around the world, Indigenous communities have taken a leading role in grassroots movements to protect water, land, and our collective future. This exhibition introduces visitors to the values and concerns guiding Indigenous-led environmentalism, testifying to the resilience and courage of Native communities today.

Exhibition by the House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation and The Natural History Museum Kwel’ Hoy: We Draw the Line is a cross-country tour, traveling museum exhibition, and series of

Is the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences a museum, or a PR front for the fossil fuel industry? This is the central question of “Mining the HMNS”, an exhibition by The Natural History Museum that interrogates the symbiotic relationship between the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences and its corporate sponsors.