STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and the Sawtooth Interpretive & Historical Association are dedicating new permanent tribal interpretive displays designed for the Stanley Museum and Redfish Visitor Center & Gallery on Saturday, July 12.

The dedication, open to the public, will be held at 1 p.m. July 12 at the Stanley Museum. Light appetizers and refreshments will be served

An event titled “Being Indigenous in the Modern Day” will precede the dedication at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 11. That discussion—part of the SIHA Summer Series—will feature tribal members Bobette and Russell Haskett.

The new displays share the unique history and lifeways of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and their current and past connection to the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, according to Lin Gray, executive director of the Sawtooth Interpretive & Historical Association.

The project was developed through a close collaboration between SIHA and the Tribes' Language and Cultural Preservation Department staff. Among those taking part: Louise Dixey, Nolan Brown, and Bailey Dann. Their department has developed dozens of interpretive signs across central and southern Idaho highlighting important Indigenous history.

Antonia Hendrick designed the signs with funding provided in part by the Idaho Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Sawtooth Society's License Plate Fund.