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Native American High School Students Create Their Own Exhibit

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Miah Chalfant (Northern Cheyenne) and Kinahlei Armajo (Crow and Northern Arapho) hold an object from the Plains Indian Museum. Credit: Hunter Old Elk
St. Labre Indian School students learning museum skills. Credit: Hunter Old Elk
Miah Chalfant (Northern Cheyenne) holds an object from the Plains Indian Museum. Credit: Hunter Old Elk

For the past 15 years, the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West welcomes high school students from the St. Labre Indian School located in Montana. In two days, the students pick objects from the museum’s archive and learn the process of creating an exhibit. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska spoke with St. Labre teachers, Philippe Franquelinand Cecilia Thex on the exposure a program like this gives high school students.

The students’ exhibit will be displayed in the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody until March.

About Kamila Kudelska

Kamila Kudelska was the multimedia journalist for the Center and for Wyoming Public Media. In that role she told the hidden stories of all five museums and reported on the news of northwest Wyoming. Kamila has worked as a public radio reporter in California, Poland and New York. She enjoys skiing (both downhill and crosscountry) and loves to read. Since has since taken on a larger role with Wyoming Pubic Media.

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