What do you think about your environment? The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum wants to know Community Top News by Tara Backhouse - June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Early 20th century photograph of a man poling a canoe along a canoe trail leading from Tommy Osceola's second camp. This photograph was taken before Everglades drainage was completed and before roads were constructed in the area. (Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum photo) History is not only about people, it is also
Longstanding partnership provides online access to community history, including Tribal Fairs Arts & Entertainment Top News by Tara Backhouse - April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 Dancers gather and wait to perform. From left to right are: Bobby Henry, Barbara Sisnero, Susie Henry, Stephen Bowers, Alan Jumper, Jimmy O'Toole Osceola and Linda Lee Henry. Do you know anyone else in this picture, or can you guess the date? (ATTK Catalog No. 2015.6.7253) For more than
NMAI: A landmark institution working for Indian Country Arts & Entertainment Community Top News by Tara Backhouse - April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 Your own local museum, the Ah-Tah-Thi Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Reservation, works hard to share the Seminole story and to represent the Tribe’s interests in all our work. We are able to collaborate with many museums and other institutions in Florida, and we help them tell the Seminole
The photographs remember Arts & Entertainment Community News by Tara Backhouse - January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 Happy holidays to you and your families, from the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. Christmas and the New Year are times for celebration, but also for recollection and thought. We remember times gone by and we wonder what is to come. These days we all have our own interests and activities,
We were there, always have been, always will be Community by Tara Backhouse - April 2, 2019 Have you been to the Ah-Tah-Th-Ki Museum recently? If not, I recommend visiting soon, and thinking about the changes taking place in the next few years. For over 20 years, the museum has been a wonderful place to learn about the Tribe. Most of the museum are we call permanent
Shared traditions take their place in Seminole history Arts & Entertainment Community by Tara Backhouse - February 12, 2019 If you’re familiar with Seminole history, there are a lot of things you may recognize immediately as essential to our mission: a piece of patchwork, a doll or basket, and perhaps a historic photograph or postcard. At the Museum we’re happy to see those, but we also love to uncover
Weaving Fort Marion into Florida’s Native history Community by Tara Backhouse - July 2, 2018 The Museum’s historic collection consists of many types of things, from 19th century newspapers to patchwork clothing, to sculpture and paintings. However, the majority of the objects we care for are photographs. We estimate we have 150,000 photographs that range from the early 20th century to the present day. You’ve no
Mystery portraits highlight fashion and beauty Community by Tara Backhouse - April 30, 2018April 27, 2018 Here at the Museum we’ve partnered with this newspaper to care for thousands of photographs their hardworking reporters took for the Seminole Tribe of Florida for over 30 years. You can imagine that is a lot of photos. We estimate there are around 30,000! Since they were transferred to the
A glimpse of Florida’s past arrives at the Museum Community by Tara Backhouse - July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Every four months, the Museum’s Acquisitions Committee meets to review potential additions to our collection. It’s always a tough choice because resources are limited, but everything we choose to acquire is well thought out, matching the Museum’s mission, and serving the community in the best way possible. We always strive