From the Vaults: Museum Collections and their Collectors

Guest: Paul Stavast, Director of the Museum of Peoples and Cultures at BYU  All over the country school children are dressing up to re-enact the first Thanksgiving feast when the Pilgrims and the Native American Indians sat down together in harmony. That’s not exactly how it went, though. Which we know, of course. And that’s partly why, in addition to being the month of Thanksgiving, November is also Native American Heritage Month.  It’s in that vein that we dedicate this month’s installment of “From the Vaults” to a selection of Ute artifacts from the Museum of Peoples and Cultures here at BYU. The Ute tribe is indigenous to Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona and, of course, Utah.