Personal Narrative: A Native American Museum
Inspiration The news vans from a dozen different television stations were gathered around the massive crowd of people outside of what was once the closed down and abandoned Museum in Coutts. Coutts is a Small town located just above the border into the United States. I saw the reporters interviewing the people looking to get their side of the story as they waited for the event to be underway the grand opening of the museum of native American history. One reporter was interviewing a tall Native American who wore a name tag that said I am Blackfoot on it. The man said to the news reporter “I remember 3 years ago when Mel started this petition to reopen this museum, we all thought he was crazy, he would come around with these little name tags
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I worked hard to make sure the museum was successful I went around advertising getting word of mouth out there trying to make it the place to be, to make it entertaining. It was on July 27 2014 when Koko gave birth to a healthy baby boy, it was the most wonderful day of my life I smiled and cried tears of joy as I held my son for the first time; we named our son Apisi after Koko’s Great grandfather.
The area around the museum began to bloom tribal members would flock from all over on Tuesdays and Friday and turn the grassy area beside the museum into a makeshift farmers market and would sell and exchange goods, and on really busy days we would erect a stage and do tribal dances for tourist and travelers driving by who decide to stop to see what was going on.
I with the help of a group of friends and family started up a small daycare nearby, so that the kids could play together while the parents go enjoy the shopping or the museum it was nice to see our son Apisi playing with the other children. Somedays I still have a hard time believing that this all worked out how I went from a lonely man working in the duty free shop to one day being part of a big community and being part of a wonderful family. I guess it shows that when you become inspired you should jump on it while it lasts and great things can come of
I worked hard to make sure the museum was successful I went around advertising getting word of mouth out there trying to make it the place to be, to make it entertaining. It was on July 27 2014 when Koko gave birth to a healthy baby boy, it was the most wonderful day of my life I smiled and cried tears of joy as I held my son for the first time; we named our son Apisi after Koko’s Great grandfather.
The area around the museum began to bloom tribal members would flock from all over on Tuesdays and Friday and turn the grassy area beside the museum into a makeshift farmers market and would sell and exchange goods, and on really busy days we would erect a stage and do tribal dances for tourist and travelers driving by who decide to stop to see what was going on.
I with the help of a group of friends and family started up a small daycare nearby, so that the kids could play together while the parents go enjoy the shopping or the museum it was nice to see our son Apisi playing with the other children. Somedays I still have a hard time believing that this all worked out how I went from a lonely man working in the duty free shop to one day being part of a big community and being part of a wonderful family. I guess it shows that when you become inspired you should jump on it while it lasts and great things can come of