InHerit was recently awarded a Systemic Change Grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to support our new collaboration with the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke to develop educational resources for middle and high school students and teachers. Our aim is to contribute to reshaping dominant historical narratives that obscure Native American cultures and experiences in the social history of our state. In 2020-21 we are working closely with our partners from the Lumbee Tribe, the largest state-recognized American Indian tribe east of the Mississippi River, to design educator workshops, experiential learning resources, and museum programming that incorporate local knowledge and traditions, oral history, and archaeology to help students and the wider public explore Native American contributions to local cultural traditions and landscapes. Our objective is to advance public education by amplifying Indigenous voices and histories that are so often underrepresented in teaching and learning about the lived experiences that have shaped and continue to shape this part of the world. During these challenging times, we know that teachers and students need our help more than ever to access high quality online resources and digital collections for distance learning, as well. In order to create these tools for our teachers and help them prepare, we must raise matching funds right now. If you are able to, please consider making a secure donation by clicking on the orange donate button above. We are grateful for contributions of any size–every dollar we raise helps us move one step closer to connecting 6th-12th grade students and teachers in new ways with the priceless cultural heritage resources that the museum conserves, protects, and interprets for the community, whether the front doors are open or closed. Thank you for your support, and please stay well and safe. –The InHerit-MSAI team
In 2018, InHerit received a grant from the National Geographic Society for a collaborative cultural heritage education project with public secondary schools in Yucatec Maya communities and students and faculty from the Universidad de Oriente (UNO) in Valladolid, Mexico. The project focused on cenotes, or limestone solution sinkholes, that have provided fresh water to communities in the region for centuries. Developing innovative, sustainable, and interactive educational programs that explore the geomorphology, oral history, cultural and archaeological heritage of cenotes, our program motivates youth ages 11-15 to be proactive in cenote conservation efforts in their communities!
In 2018, InHerit received a grant from the National Geographic Society for a collaborative cultural heritage education project with public secondary schools in Yucatec Maya communities and students and faculty from the Universidad de Oriente (UNO) in Valladolid, Mexico. The project focused on cenotes, or limestone solution sinkholes, that have provided fresh water to communities in the region for centuries. Developing innovative, sustainable, and interactive educational programs that explore the geomorphology, oral history, cultural and archaeological heritage of cenotes, our program motivates youth ages 11-15 to be proactive in cenote conservation efforts in their communities!
febrero 20, 2019| Featured, News
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