Abstract
Like other Native people in the United States, people of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs experienced deterritorialization as a consequence of national myths of "wilderness" and "Manifest Destiny"; they lost resources as a result of the myth of "Progress"; and they continue to confront myths about Native people perpetuated by film and other media. Yet Native people have developed places that are particularly effective at deploying counter-narratives to colonial myths - tribal museums. This paper will narrate how one Native community in Oregon built up an extensive collection of artifacts and created a museum where they can tell their own story in the own voices using their extensive collection as material evidence. In response to challenges of colonization, the story is one of clever negotiation, persistence of traditions, resilience, and perseverance.