WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- The Library of Congress issued the following news release:
The Library of Congress will host a media preview of its new permanent exhibition, "Voices of the Early Americas," on Monday, Nov. 16. The exhibition will open to the public on Nov. 19. Housed in the new Jay I. Kislak Gallery in the Thomas Jefferson Building, "Voices of the Early Americas" considers the histories, cultures and experiences of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, from ancient times through European contact, and into the present.
The exhibition brings together objects, books, maps, manuscripts and paintings that illuminate how Indigenous peoples recorded their histories, navigated changing circumstances du...