- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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12 people are interested
Volunteer Tour Guide/Docent
ORGANIZATION: State Indian Museum
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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12 people are interested
Do you enjoy public speaking, teaching or working with children? Volunteer Tour Guides or Docents are educators that help us conduct tours to third and fourth grade classes. Docents lead many other programs here at the museum such as: events, activities, and outreach. Outreach provides interested docents with the opportunity to travel to different locations to talk about native californians, and show examples of the items that we have at the museum. We are looking for indiduals interested in learning about the museum and teaching our many guests what they have learned. Docents also help organize our internal library, maintain our native plant garden, and help with fundraising. Schedule will be flexible depending on availability.
More opportunities with State Indian Museum
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About State Indian Museum
Location:
2618 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95816, US
Mission Statement
The mission of California State Parks is to provide for the health, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation.
Description
The State Indian Museum, opened in 1940, depicts three major themes of California Indian life: Nature, Spirit, and Family. Native peoples lived prosperously for thousands of years in what is now California. All of the exhibits and photographs on display in the museum are presented with respect for those who went before us on this land and continue to live in California communities today.
California Indian cultural items in the museum include traditional baskets, along with some of the smallest in the world, a redwood dugout canoe, ceremonial regalia, beadwork, and hunting & fishing tools-some of which are more than twenty-four hundred years old. There is also an exhibit depicting the life of Ishi, reputedly the last survivor of the Yahi tribe, illustrating how Native culture was powerfully impacted and forever changed when outsiders arrived.
Many Native people have donated photographs of family and friends for viewing in the museum. There is also a wall of photographs devoted to honoring California Elders, and a hands-on area where visitors have the opportunity to utilize Indian tools like the pump drill, used for making holes in shell beads, and the mortar & pestle, used for grinding acorns.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2618 K StreetSacramento, CA 95816
DATE POSTED
February 3, 2019
SKILLS
- Child Development
- History
- Adult Education
- Anthropology
- Archeology
- General Education
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 7 hours a month
- 6 training classes