You can explore the history of Door County’s indigenous tribes the next time you visit the Door County Historical Society’s Heritage Village as a part of a new exhibit. Thanks to a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the organization installed the 10-panel “Door County’s First Peoples” exhibit highlighting the tribes that called Door County home. The exhibit is also the result of many months of hard work by DCHS Curator and Interpretations Coordinator Michaela Kraft, who did the research behind the tribes like the Ho-Chunk that settled in the area. Executive Director Amy Frank says it is important for residents and visitors to learn about the area’s Native American past from their point of view.

The exhibit will be dedicated in a ceremony on Saturday at 1 p.m. Wanda McFaggen, the St. Croix Tribal Historic Preservationist of the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, will give a presentation about the state’s burial mounds and their role in its indigenous history.