Our trip to the Mashantucket Pequot museum!!!

Dig This o8 took a field a field trip to the mashantucket Peaquot museam.We entered many exibihits.The ‘indian village was based on everyday life in the past. It gave me a sense on how theylivedi their time being. We also entered a pretty interesting exihibt. ‘The race section’ was based obviously about race.I learned that everybody isnt the same but in some ways we are. Color doesnt matter, what matters is type of blood, hair, and other parts. During this trip I enjoyed it alot. The most interesting part was looking at the movie. I reccomend that movie to every one!!!!!

Dig This! Trip To Pequot Museum

Pequot museum

The Pequot museum had many fascinating exhibits and activities to participate in. There were four exhibits we visited while at the museum. They consisted of one on race and if we were are actually all that different, one had a recreation of a Pequot village, another was a real Indian pow wow, and the last one was a movie on the Pequot war. All of these exhibits were very interesting and each gave you another kind of understanding of a different kind of culture.

What I Did At The Mashentucket Pequot Museum

What I Did At The Mashantucket Pequot Museum

At the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, I did a lot of things. I got to see a reconstruction of a Pequot village, I got to see a movie on the war between the Pequot’s and the British, I got to see an exhibit on races, and I got to see a religious “Pow Wow”. This took up most of my time there and I had a blast. It was so fun.

Dig This 08 visits the Mashantucket Pequot Museum

The Dig This! 08 Lower School Institute spent the day visiting the Mashantucket Pequot Museum.  The posts which follow are the students’ accounts of their visit to the museum.

Mashantucket Pequot Museum

Our class visit to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum was an amazing experience, well worth the three hour drive. Our first stop was a recreation of an early Pequot village. Using audio guides, we made our way through the village taking notes. The “villagers” (plastic molds) went about what would have been daily tasks, from harvesting corn to weaving baskets. A couple built a wigwam, a young boy sprang a trap for a turkey, and women carefully sculpted clay pots. This exhibit was a great way to learn about the Pequot as if you were really there back in the sixteenth century.

OMG!!!!! SO MUCH FUN AT THE MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM!!!

Yesterday, we went to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, located in Mashantucket, Connecticut. There were many exhibits, such as the village exhibit, the race exhibit, and the movie. We also got to experience a powwow.

TRIP TO MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM!^_^

Our field trip today to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum was AWESOME! I learned about a lot of things and I really enjoyed the exhibits there. I think the three hour ride there to Connecticut was worth it. When we arrived, we first went into the exhibit where there was a re-creation, a duplicate model of a typical Pequot village, with palisades, long houses, and wampum, which are typical Pequot houses. During the exhibit, I learned that the leader of the tribe does not get a special house to live in, but they only have some rare fur, or objects that make them important.

My Experience at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum

The Main Exhibit

The main exhibit was the coolest exhibit I’ve ever seen! The environment surrounding the village looked real, and the villagers looked very lifelike. Everything about the exhibit contributed to making it seem like I was really there. The sound of birds and animals filled the entire exhibit, and you could even see the birds and animals if you looked closely enough. My favorite part of the exhibit was the waterfall, because it was real. This exhibit was so cool that I would definitely think of going again with my parents because they never got to see it.

FIELD TRIP!

Field Trip- Pequot Museum

Today was the field trip to the Pequot Museum. YAY!!! Unfortunately, the Pequot just HAD to live in Connecticut, which made for a very long car drive. Seriously, we went to a museum 3 hours away to stay for 3 hours. Why couldn’t they just live in Massachusetts like normal people? I should probably stop talking about the nightmare-ish location of the museum and move on to what’s actually IN the museum.

Well when we first went in the museum we went to the 3^rd floor into this really big room with lots of windows. I forget the name. There were these huge model canoes with a bunch of molds of Indians In them. I think they scared Beebie.

Then we went into the recreated village,, where there were even more molds to creep Beebie out. The audio tour was pretty cool, except the audio thingy was a BRICK. It was impossible to write anything when you needed to hold the telephone from a CENTURY AGO up. Besides the evil device of doom, I liked the audio. My favorite part was the family of Native Americans eating in from of their wampum. I thought the brass jewelry and spoon was interesting. The palisade was also really interesting, especially since they didn’t need it before the Europeans. I learned a lot about Indian / European conflicts.

Then we went to the Powwow. It was great, but it was outside. If I haven’t told everyone yet, the weather in Massachusetts is horrible. It’s so humid ALL THE TIME. It’s not fair. Anyway, the dancer’s costumes were so colorful and decorated; it looked amazing when they moved around, even though most of the dances were pretty simple. All the feathers, bright colors, and beads were really complex. What made it even better was the frybread that Christine ordered. (that I ate most of)

So, I guess the next thing is the Race exhibit. It was really similar to the movie yesterday, so parts of it were really boring. But the 5 things the exhibit is trying to convey are:

1) Race is geographical, not genetic/ biological.

2) Race is tied to superiority.

3) Race can determine your salary, health, and opinions received from others.

4) Skin color does not always determine race.

5) Even though we look different, genetically, we are very similar.

Then we went to the observation tower, which was pretty high, but wasn’t that interesting.

The next place we went was the movie. I think the name is “The Witness.” It’s basically about this man who’s telling the boy a story of when he was little. He talks about events from the arrival of the Europeans to the massacre. I think this movie because it was pretty balanced. A lot of Native American based movies are one-sided, but this one explained the British point of view too. I think this movie was a little graphic, though. Overall, it was a well-spent hour of my life.

Then we went “home.”

Trip to the Pequot Museum!

Anthony Namnum

The trip to Pequot Museum was a fun and interesting trip. I learned a lot about the Pequot tribe and their customs and culture. The best parts were the Powwow, the Racial exhibit, the movie, and the recreated village.

The recreated village defiantly impacted my learning experience about the Pequot. I enjoyed how they described, in detail, what each model of Pequot people were doing. How the dog and the boy played hide and seek, how tobacco represented rituals and status, and how corn, squash, and succotash are very important meals of the Pequot tribe. This was a great learning experience and an excellent part of my Pequot experience.

The Powwow was also exciting, more fun than learning though. The Powwow was a great way to recreate an Indian dance. I enjoyed the part where everyone was allowed to dance along with the descendants of the Pequot. It was a great part of the museum and a memorable part of my Andover experience.

The racial exhibit was a very interesting part, it impacted me the most. I learned much of how the concept of race is merely just an invention by humanity. I enjoyed this part the most and learned the most from this part. The greatest part that I learned, was how I understood that the term ‘race’ is merely an invention created by humanity. I learned this through how much evidence inside the exhibit. I was also touched by how badly treated people were when segregation was popular. I thought how people could do this just because someone looked different. This part was the best of my trip to Pequot Museum.

Finally, the movie, The Witness. This movie moved me almost as much as the racial exhibit did. It was a sad movie of the end of the Pequot freedom, and the beginning of Pequot enslavement. The worst part was the slaughter of the innocent villagers. These people did not deserve what they were given, but got it anyway. I enjoyed this part almost as much as the racial exhibit. This trip was amazing!

~Anthony Namnum