Sentence examples for indigenous museum from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Reuters Updated at 4.10pm GMT 3.12pm GMT An activist sleeps inside the former Indigenous Museum, the Aldea Maracana, next to the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

The old Indigenous Museum, which belongs to the federal government, is in urgent need of repair.

More than 20 families had been living in the building, which used to house the city's indigenous museum.

Campaigners say the eviction and demolition of the historic building - Rio's former indigenous museum, built in 1862 - are unnecessary.

They say the stadium is a symbol of Rio - along with other buildings in the Maracana complex such as an indigenous museum, which may be demolished.

A Brazilian indigenous group, the Aldeia Maracana (or Maracana tribe), have also protested at the site against their eviction from a former indigenous museum, built in 1862.

In his current research, Mavhunga studies the impact of mobility on pathogens and plants, creating culturally grounded solutions to climate change and poverty, and developing an indigenous technology museum in Kruger National Park in South Africa with his NYU colleague, Kenyan geneticist Simon Kang'a.

For the majority of historical Indigenous belongings in museum collections, researching these simple facts exposes glaring voids of knowledge.

The eagle feather symbolizes "the important, ongoing journey for recognition of indigenous rights," the museum said.

— How accurate are the depictions of Indigenous people in museums where you live?

Indigenous collaborations with museums can lead to more heterogeneous understandings of national or regional culture, and thus to fairer laws and fairer representations.