Eiteljorg Museum

I think that the trip to the Eiteljorg Museum was beneficial to college students, especially first year freshman. It showed different tribes of Indians and what their backgrounds were all about. That is the same with the IUPUI campus, there are many different ethnicities and people that come from all over to attend this college. Everyone has a different background therefore there is a wide diversity of people, same as the Indian tribes. We usually think of Indians as all relevantly the same, although from visiting the Eiteljorg this took my bias of that away. Also, incoming freshman are coming from different homes, some moving into apartments or the on campus dorms, and others are commuting. At the Eiteljorg it talked a lot about migration of the Indians and how they all live in different types of homes, some more modern like the log cabin, some use the land to live and others built tents called teepees. I personally did not know about the Eiteljorg before visiting it with my classmates. I took on an open minded perspective when visiting it. I believe that touring it as a group of students was good because it gave me that insight of reality; that we all relate to the Indians because we are all coming from different places in the world and seeing things in a different light because of our different cultures. Also, the Eiteljorg taught me about my home state, Indiana. I did not know prior to the visit that there were so many Indian tribes that originated out of Indiana. It gave me some personal knowledge about Indiana that I did not know of before, which I thought as a freshman in college I would know by now.  But this also ties back with IUPUI freshman, there is such a variety of people you would never meet prior to going to this school that are also from all over Indiana. It teaches you to learn and know other people’s opinions in an open minded way without having a bias because we are all from different backgrounds.