January 6, 2012 : "Collection Conundrum" Exhibit
Do your own detective work and try to figure out what some historic pieces were used for, you could be very surprised!

February 3, 2012 Brown Bag Lunch: “Felix Vinatieri and BIGHORN” by Crystal Nelson
Ms. Nelson will show the 15-minute, supernatural historical fantasy, movie called Bighorn, based on the fact that General Custer's bandmaster, Felix Vinatieri was the great-great-grandfather of Super Bowl-winning kicker Adam Vinatieri. The story takes place in 2002 and 1876. Bighorn is the latest from award-winning filmmakers Alfred Thomas Catalfo and Glenn Gardner. The renowned Steve Alexander, recognized by the U.S. Congress as the world’s foremost Custer living historian, portrays Custer. Native American and adopted Lakota Bill Watkinson portrays the Lakota Medicine Man. Nelson will also share some of the misconceptions about Vinatieri’s time with the 7th Calvary and some of the family heirlooms currently housed at the Dakota Territorial Museum.

OPENING February 20, 2012: “H.W. Pike & Sons General Store” Exhibit: This exhibit will show was one of H.W. Pike’s stores looked like in 1917. H.W. Pike was a prominent business man in Yankton and had many stores from dry goods to furniture to funeral materials. This exhibit will be one or our larger exhibits open to the public for an extended period of time.

March 2, 2012 Brown Bag Lunch: “Governor Mellette: Substitute Soldier” by John Timm
Mr. Timm returns as Dakota Territorial Museum’s last Governor, Arthur Mellette to talk about his experience during the Civil War as a substitute soldier for his brother. Little is said about the substitute soldier program during the Civil War because regular soldiers saw the program as a disgrace to the uniform. Attend this special Brown Bag Presentation and decided for yourself if our great Governor Mellette was a national disgrace or a family hero?