Rebecca West

Named as the Center of the West's new Executive Director in April 2021, Rebecca West has served as Curator of Plains Indian Cultures, as well as the Collier-Read Director of Curatorial, Education, and Museum Services. Rebecca has worked with the people, objects, ideas, and programs that define the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Indigenous Peoples Day 2016

October 9, 2016 by Rebecca West

In 1937, a celebratory event called “Columbus Day” was enacted as a federal holiday, presumably to commemorate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Discovery is a loaded word in […]

St. Labre Indian School visit, 2016

May 4, 2016 by Rebecca West

St. Labre school visit to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in April 2016. For the eleventh year, the Plains Indian Museum hosted students, elders, teachers, and administrator from […]

Joe Medicine Crow (1913 – 2016)

April 5, 2016 by Rebecca West

History is not made simply by passages of entry and exit into this world. History is an accumulation of one’s life experiences and interplay of all types of beings―humans, animals […]

St. Labre student visit to the Plains Indian Museum, Fall 2015

November 11, 2015 by Rebecca West

Seven students from St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana―Donovan Wind, Victor Yarlott, Summer Tapelo, Bernadine Fisher, Trinity Rides The Bear, Preston Brady, and Justin Lyons―studied beadwork and learned essential […]

So you’ve got an Indian object…

October 15, 2015 by Rebecca West

The Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West receives countless inquiries each year about items in personal collections. Our visitors, whether virtual or not, are an […]