Uproar as Indigenous mother is told to remove woven baby carrier on visit to Native American museum exhibit

Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum has been forced to change its policies and cultural sensitivity trainings after an Indigenous woman was asked to remove a traditional willow basket she was carrying her child in during a visit to the museum last week.

Sophie Weinstein, an OB/GYN at Oregon Health & Science University, is a citizen of the Karuk Nation and of Yurok descent. Last Saturday, on what she toldUnderscore News was her first day off in three weeks, she ventured downtown with visiting family members to see the Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe exhibit at the museum.