Our favorite part of the Pequot museum is the walk-in, life-size, recreated village panorama, with several wigwams and numerous Pequots performing various tasks from hunting to weaving, fishing to cooking. Sis particularly likes the medicine man healing the sick warrior. Bud likes spotting various animals and activities; today it was find-the-papoose (since he made a paper one at school which he has been wearing along with his bow). They both loved operating and listening to the audio tours on "magic wands." They went from number to number, learning about aspects of village life.
Today there was a special performance of a puppeteer and ventriloquist ("venticklist!"), Buddy Big Mountain. At first the kids were nonplussed . . . because they didn't realize he was making all the voices, songs included! Such modern, high-tech kids--they thought it was a recording. They were pretty amazed when they realized how it all worked. Though, many of the jokes (like the one about "Custer had it coming") went over their heads. But we did learn that it was the relatively new annual observation of Native American Heritage Day, always celebrated the Friday after Thanksgiving.
As per usual, we ended our visit in the shop, where we finally consented to Bud having a bow with an arrow (and Sis got yet another critter, this time a woolly mammoth). I picked up a James Beard Award-winning cookbook, Spirit of the Harvest, and hope to cook up some more appreciation of indigenous peoples here at home this weekend, another way to celebrate Native American Heritage Day.
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