Description: A forerunner of today’s efforts to decolonize and Indigenize American museums, Tichkematse was one of the first Native American employees at the Smithsonian Institution. His work with natural history and anthropological collections continue to inspire Native and non-Native museum professionals nearly 150 years later.
Description: [view in Spanish]Doña María do Carmo Bandeira was a botanist with the Jardim Botanico de Rio de Janeiro, specializing on mosses. She served on the editorial board of its Arquivos do Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. In the late 1920s, she established a correspondence with Mary Agnes Chase, curator of grasses in the U.S. National Museum. They exchanged plant specimens and