Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation

MAshantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, a tribally owned and operated institution in southeastern Connecticut, will use its grant to develop new programmatic explorations aided by handheld technologies. Each program, five-to-seven minutes in length, will consist of a multimedia, in-depth exploration of an aspect of Pequot Indian history, accessed through the use of touch-screen technologies and enriched by images, oral histories, and objects. Visitors have the opportunity to deepen their understandings of how race-based misunderstandings and stereotypes impacted the lives of Pequot people and how they in turn challenged those myths by creating organizations to make their "Indianness" more visible. This is the next step in a long-range renovation plan.