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| Coordinates | 37°58′19″N 103°32′40″W / 37.97190°N 103.54456°W |
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| Website | www |
The Koshare Indian Museum is an art and scouting museum in La Junta, Colorado.[1] The building, located on the Otero Junior College campus, is a tri-level museum with an attached kiva that is built with the largest self-supporting log roof in the world.[2] The building was built in 1949.[3]
The museum features works of Pueblo and Plains tribal members.[4]
The museum also facilitates Boy Scouts traveling to Philmont Ranch by providing museum discounts, as well as hostel stays for visiting Boy Scout troops.[5]
For decades, Native American response to the Koshare dance performances has been negative based upon cultural appropriation of indigenous cultures as a form of racial discrimination.
- ^ "Otero County - History Colorado". Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ^ "Otero Junior College". Ojc.edu. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
- ^ "Koshare History". Koshare Indian Museum. Archived from the original on January 8, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ "Koshare Indian Museum and Kiva - Museum Review in La Junta at Frommer's". Frommers.com. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
- ^ "Visiting Scouts". Koshare Indian Museum. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2017.