Illinois State Museum’s Director of Tribal Relations, Logan Pappenfort, presents the family stories that inspired the recent exhibition, This Land is Their Land: Stories of Indigenous Survivance. Before the United States of America, a kaleidoscope of Indigenous Nations and communities called Turtle Island, or North America, home. This Land is Their Land: Stories of Indigenous Survivance shares the stories of Native American tribes forcibly removed from what is now the state of Illinois and how they maintain ties to their homelands today.
Follow one family’s 250-year journey from Illinois to Oklahoma and back again and learn how one Tribal Nation’s quest for justice led them to become the first federally recognized tribe in Illinois. This program is free to attend, and all are welcome.