Family Fun in Nowashe

Join special guest educator Darlene Kascak (Traditional Native American Storyteller, Schaghticoke Tribal Nation) for a day of family fun! Throughout the day, Darlene will be teaching stories in the longhouse fashion about woodland creatures and how they came to be. These stories — passed down through many generations — provide important life lessons about how to behave properly, the consequences of bad behavior and instructions on how to be a good human being.

Darlene also will teach everyone to play the IAIS’ educational blanket game about CT’s Indigenous Peoples’ both past and present. In this game, participants take on the roles of archaeologists, anthropologists and activists working together to return a cultural item to one of CT’s five recognized tribes.

A Hands-on-History experience will round out Darlene’s visit to Nowashe Village and guests will be able to handle a variety of original and replicated Indigenous material culture, including pottery, artifacts, furs, clothing and instruments. Inside Wood Memorial on the second floor, various authentic Woodland-era pottery pieces also will be on display.  

Each guest will have the opportunity to fashion their very own miniature clay pinch pot out of Mexican self-hardening terra cotta modeling clay.

Suggested donation: $5 per child, $10 for adults, $25 per family.

We are pleased to be able to offer free visits this summer through CT Summer at the Museum. This program allows Connecticut children 18 and under plus one (1) accompanying adult free admission.