The longtime curator of the Nanticoke Indian Museum in Millsboro, Delaware’s only museum of its kind, retired last week in his humble way, without fanfare, leaving the position he assumed in 2011 in the hands of June “Morningstar” Robbins.
“I’m 80 now and my blood pressure is high. I don’t need any more stress. It will be better for my health. It will seem funny not coming back here but I have gotten to the point where I can’t talk as long as I used to when I give tours. I get hoarse. I do a lot of presentations,” Street told Coastal Point the afternoon of Friday, March 31, as he sat at the front desk, welcoming visitors and waiting for a visit from Nanticoke Chief Avery Johnson.
“Today I have been gathering files that I made over the years. I have been gathering them and I am taking them home. I still work on the family farm in Harbeson, the farm we have had over 100 years. That’s my second passion,” said Street, a Millsboro resident whose Indian name is Earth Keeper because of his love for gardening.
Nanticoke elders bestow Indian names during special ceremonies, he explained.
He will miss talking to visitors who have arrived at the museum from all over the world, as far away as India, Greece and Turkey.
“They read about the museum in tourism magazines and they come to Delaware and they want to see it,” Street said.
“What was interesting to me was finding out indigenous people from other countries have the same items we have here, indigenous people from Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, the same beadwork and woodwork. The same utensils. They had to survive by using natural things just like we did, to drink from, to sail in, so the items are the same,” he…
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