Events

5th-6th graders have the opportunity to learn paper weaving with instructor Sue Burns. Class size limit: 20 (Second class for 7th & 8th graders at 1:30 p.m) Registration required: https://norfolk-ne.libcal.com/event/12626632 […]

Speaker: Taylor Keen Location: Norfolk Public Library, Room C While Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North America—or Turtle Island—stretch back millennia. Drawing on comparative analysis, firsthand Indigenous accounts, extensive historical writings, and his own experience, Omaha Tribal member, Cherokee citizen, and teacher Taylor Keen presents a […]

7th-8th graders have the opportunity to learn paper weaving with instructor Sue Burns. Class size limit: 20 (Earlier class for 5th & 6th graders.) Registration required: https://norfolk-ne.libcal.com/event/12626632  

In commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the United States and its evolving vision of democracy, Humanities Nebraska wants to explore a selection of the stories that have helped give […]

Watch a bucket drumline performance

Watch youth perform Hispanic folklore dancing.

Meet El Vaquero, America’s first cowboy, as portrayed by Angel Vigil. A composite of many different historic figures, El Vaquero is a Spanish colonial cowboy. These cowboys were the first […]

Speaker: Jessica Downing-Ford Norfolk Public Library Room A Abigail Adams Five years after Abigail Smith married John Adams, the American colonies adopted the British law of coverture. This law held that no female person had a legal identity. At birth she was “covered” by her father’s identity and, when she married, by her husband’s. The husband […]