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Diorama update

Native American exhibit extinct

by Kim Elsifor

posted 5/14/2011

A year after the Native American dioramas were removed from the U-M Museum of Natural History, it looks like homo sapiens won't be back. Though children were fascinated by the miniature scenes of Indian life, "We were finding that kids were coming to the museum, looking at the dinosaurs, the fossils, the stuffed animals, the endangered species, then

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