The Wild Center

The Wild Center will implement a two-year comprehensive professional development initiative to build staff member cultural competency for improved work with its neighboring community of Akwesasne, the largest remaining Mohawk territory. The museum will engage the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience to offer dialogue training for museum interpretive staff and up to ten additional participants from other regional museums and tourism associations to build staff skills in facilitating authentic conversations with visitors. Up to 40 staff members and additional regional participants will attend the Native North American Traveling College Cultural Sensitivity Workshop at the museum, and all participants will complete practice sessions and related activities as a follow-up to the trainings. Staff field trips will also be organized to visit Akwesasne and the Six Nations Museum to further build an understanding of the Mohawk people.