Decolonizing Museums Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

Name: Decolonizing Museums Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
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ISBN: 9780807837153

ISBN-10: 0807837156

ISBN-13: 9780807837153

Edition: 2012

Authors: Amy Lonetree

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Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. InDecolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how museums can honor an Indigenous worldview and way of knowing, challenge stereotypical representations, and speak the hard truths of colonization within exhibition spaces to address the persistent legacies of historical unresolved grief in Native…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk) is associate professor of American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-editor, with Amanda J. Cobb, of The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. She is co-author of People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families, 1879-1942.



Preface


Acknowledgments


A Note on Names



Introduction: Native Americans and Museums



Collaboration Matters: The Minnesota Historical Society, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, and the Creation of a "Hybrid Tribal Museum"



Exhibiting Native America at the National Museum of the American Indian: Collaborations and Missed Opportunities



The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways: Decolonization, Truth Telling, and Addressing Historical Unresolved Grief



Conclusion: Transforming Museums into "Places that Matter" for Indigenous Peoples


Notes


Bibliography


Index