Walking with Nature Family Day

Name: Walking with Nature Family Day
Start: 2026-05-30T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-30T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Wyandotte County Historical Museum

Schedule

Sat May 30 2026 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Wyandotte County Historical Museum | Bonner Springs, KS

Join us for a fun-filled family day exploring the Native Americans tribes and natural history of Wyandotte County! Through hands-on activities, storytelling, games, crafts, and nature exploration, families will discover how Indigenous communities connected with the region for generations. Visitors will also take part in creating a community medicine wheel by placing stones and planting flowers together, celebrating connection to the land, the seasons, and community traditions. Celebrate the stories, knowledge, and culture of the Native People who shaped the land we call home.

This event coincides with the opening of Americans, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition. Americans is a traveling version of the thought-provoking Smithsonian exhibition. Based on the major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, “Americans” explores how deeply intertwined American Indians are in the history, popular culture and identity of the United States. Curated by Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) and Cécile R. Ganteaume, the exhibit uncovers the many ways American Indian images, names, and stories have been part of the nation’s identity since before the country began. Americans uses historical photographs and objects representative of those in the Smithsonian's collection to tell their stories and it explores the lasting legacies of Pocahontas, the 1830 Indian Removal Act, and the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn.