Stories of Partnership: How the Nuxalk Nation Is Working with UBC's Museum of Anthropology to Host the First-Ever Exhibit of Their People

In partnership with the Nuxalk Nation, the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia is presenting Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun—the world's first dedicated exhibition of the Nuxalk. The exhibit features over 60 historic treasures from MOA's collections, as well as other museums, private holders, and Nuxalk families. Visitors are invited to connect with belongings made by Nuxalk Ancestors and contemporary Nuxalk artists, and to witness how the Nation is reclaiming and practicing their ways of being.This exhibition represents a transformative shift in how the Nuxalk Nation engages with museums—not as extractive institutions, but as platforms to share their belief systems, worldviews, and identity with the larger world. To learn more about this groundbreaking collaboration, we spoke with the curators of Nuxalk Strong about the exhibit and the evolving relationship between the Nuxalk Nation and the Museum of Anthropology.Our guests are Snxakila–Clyde Tallio of the Nuxalk Nation, Jennifer Kramer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator at MOA, and Emily Jene Leischner, Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and a UBC alumna.Learn more: https://communityengagement.ubc.ca/news/how-the-nuxalk-nation-is-working-with-ubcs-museum-of-anthropology-to-host-the-first-ever-exhibit-of-their-people/