Step onto the back of the Great Turtle. So begins your visit to the Noteworthy Indian Museum.

Developed from over 60,000 artifacts, the museum quality clay pots, stone tools, beadwork and baskets tell the story of the Mohawk. As you view these treasures, easy to read signs explain their significance and uses.

A cultural timeline, depicted by illustrations and artifacts, traces Native American life in the Mohawk Valley from 12,000 years ago to the present. Examine a carefully detailed scale model of a Mohawk longhouse during the "Month of the Cold Moon", cooking fires cast a dim light on this moment captured from daily life. It is the year 1400. You happen upon a Mohawk hunter pausing in the new snow along a creek. The scene is typical of Native American life in the Valley. Poetry and paintings by contemporary artists add a human and modern perspective to the rich history of the Mohawk.