{"id":919,"date":"2015-05-01T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/?page_id=919"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:46:05","slug":"museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/departments\/1490-2\/museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<p><strong>Hoopa Tribal Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hoopa Tribal Museum is a \u201cLiving Museum,\u201d in that most of the\u00a0 artifacts and items of cultural patrimony are still actively being used by members of the tribe for tribal ceremonies and functions.\u00a0 The exhibitions are not just for public display.\u00a0 They are still being used for their original intended purposes in an active culture.\u00a0 The museum is unique in the world because \u00a0this is their core premise and function.\u00a0 The museum is for the Hupa people and not just about them.\u00a0 More than half of the artifacts are owned by local Hupa families on the Reservation the rest belonging to the Hoopa Valley Tribe as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoopa Tribal Museum has multiple functions.\u00a0 The most obvious being the housing and exhibition of Hupa artifacts.\u00a0 These artifacts include traditional clothing, ceremonial clothing, traditional designs, cooking and eating utensils, hunting\/gathering artifacts, dance regalia, hair pieces, war artifacts, early white settler artifacts, traditional contemporary art, traditional jewelry, fishing and hunting implements, artifacts used in traditional games, drumming and gambling implements, storage basketry, and traditional baby baskets and toys.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoopa Tribal Museum provides guided tours for exhibitions within the museum and to three different traditional village sites along the Trinity River.\u00a0 The traditional villages sites of Ta\u2019kimiL ding (Place of the Acorn Feast), Me\u2019dil ding (Place of Canoes), and Diysh Tang a\u2019ding (Place where the albino deer\u2019s face sticks out into the water).\u00a0 Each village has traditional Xontah (houses) and Taiqiwh (sweathouses).\u00a0 Each village has their own history, stories, and ceremonial sites.\u00a0 Portions of these traditional village sites where rebuilt by the tribe in the 1970\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The Hupa Language is a part of the Na-Dene Language Family.\u00a0 It is the most geographically widespread language family on the North American continent.\u00a0 From Alaska to Mexico, and from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains.\u00a0 The thought process of the Hupa Language is very different from English and is very tied to the land and culture.\u00a0 Giving a perspective that English speakers would have never understood on their own.\u00a0 Members of the staff are fluent and can explain the Hupa \u201cthought\u201d process and how it is different from English thought.<\/p>\n<p>All of the staff are Hoopa Valley Tribal members from local families on the Reservation.\u00a0 They have a vast knowledge of Hupa ceremonies, traditions, stories, and histories.\u00a0 These histories include: the creation of the world and universe, the coming of human beings, celestial and human interactions, the arrival of white people, conflicts between groups, teaching stories, funny stories, and contemporary stories from the last hundred years<\/p>\n<p>The museum sponsors traditional dress making classes, dance necklace making classes, Hupa Language classes, bow quiver classes, traditional basketry classes, traditional foods classes, etc\u2026\u00a0 The continuance of the Hupa culture is our objective.\u00a0 Please come and enjoy what we can offer.<\/p>\nHoopa Tribal Museum<br \/>\nP.O. Box 1348<br \/>\n12500 State Hwy 96\nPhone: (530) 625-411-<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:hupamuseum@gmail.com\">hupamuseum@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\nCurator: Silis-chi-tawn S. Jackson<br \/>\nCurator Aide: Ralph Peters III<br \/>\nOffice Worker: Minnie McKelvy\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20140714_153926_823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" \/>This is a picture of the traditional Ehs ma: ning ai (Fish Dam), a museum project that was done a few summers ago.\u00a0 The Fish Dam was to provide salmon to the people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20140613_152028_626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" \/>This picture shows the making the lattice work gates on the fish dam using young fir trees and wild grape vine.<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tAbout Hoopa Valley Tribe\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>We, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, are a Tribal Government dedicated to protecting and promoting the interests of the Hoopa Valley Indians, and cooperating and collaborating with Federal, State, and local Governments.<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tAddress\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Hoopa Valley Tribe<\/p>\n<p>11860 State Hwy 96<\/p>\n<p>PO Box 1348<\/p>\n<p>Hoopa, CA 95546<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tFollow Us:\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Copyright 2003 – 2019 The Hoopa Valley Tribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoopa Tribal Museum The Hoopa Tribal Museum is a \u201cLiving Museum,\u201d in that most of the\u00a0 artifacts and items of cultural patrimony are still actively being used by members of the tribe for tribal ceremonies and functions.\u00a0 The exhibitions are not just for public display.\u00a0 They are still being used for their original intended purposes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1490,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopa-nsn.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}