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Koshare Indian Museum & Trading Post

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marker La Junta, Colorado

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43 reviews
Brenda Laurinitis

06/13/2020
Wasn't open when I where there will have to go back
The Kansas Kid

06/08/2020
Totally recommended for the family...
Alex S

05/09/2020
The dances are offensive, and I cannot quite believe that this place still exists. Came here when I was a child and I can say without a doubt, despite many very nice items in their museum collection, this is not engaging with Native community, and disrespectful to the art and traditions they are imitating. They have repeatedly demonstrated that they think nothing of the opinions of the peoples whose traditions they imitate. When people talk about cultural appropriation, I usually feel it is just nonsense, but the dances performed here are about as good an example of it as you could find today. Go visit an actual Native community! These people do not deserve your money or time if they do not want to improve, and it pains me that many boy scouts think this is engagement with Native history. It is not, and I wish the scout leaders and others here would actually educate their well-meaning scouts.But the building is very nice and the museum has some great stuff. This place could be much better if they tried to have a more serious dialogue with the tribes they play on stage. As it is, several of those tribes have asked them to stop over the decades, and have been seemingly ignored. Is that a good example of cultural exchange?
Olivia Rose Nordyke

12/11/2019
This is an amazing museum, it's full of fantastic art and is a hidden gem I believe. However, they are only open Wednesday-Sunday. This is not listed on google, I want to save anybody from wasting a trip on a Monday/Tuesday!
Jennifer Butler

12/10/2019