Spirited Encounters

American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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During the twentieth century, dozens of protests, large and small, occurred across North America as American Indians asserted their anger and displayed their disappointment regarding traditional museum behaviors. In response, due to public embarrassment and an awakening of sensitivities, museums began to change their methods and, additionally, laws were enacted in support of American Indian requests for change. The result is that American museums have revised their long-held practices due to American Indian protests. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums and looks at their development to present time, examines how museums collect Native materials, and explores protest as a fully American process of addressing grievances. Now that museums and American Indians are working together in the processes of repatriation, this book can help each side understand the other more fully.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-11-28
Mått148 x 237 x 14 mm
Vikt347 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759110892

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Karen Coody Cooper was recently the Museum Training Program Coordinator at the National Museum of the American Indian, and was formerly Training Programs Manager at the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. She holds a Master of Liberal Studies degree, with a museum and anthropology emphasis, from the University of Oklahoma and is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Chapter 1 Author's PrefaceChapter 2 Introduction: American Indians, Museums and ProtestPart 3 Part I: Protesting ExhibitionsChapter 4 Chapter One: Politics and SponsorshipChapter 5 Chapter Two: Display of Sacred ObjectsChapter 6 Chapter Three: Display of Human RemainsChapter 7 Chapter Four: Art Confined to a Reservation of its OwnPart 8 Part II: The Long Road to RepatriationChapter 9 Chapter Five: Demands for Return of Material ObjectsChapter 10 Chapter Six: Demands for Return of Human RemainsPart 11 Part III: Whose Heroes and HolidaysChapter 12 Chapter Seven: No Celebration for ColumbusChapter 13 Chapter Eight: Thanksgiving MournedChapter 14 Chapter Nine: The Custer ChroniclesPart 15 Part IV: Claiming Our Own PlacesChapter 16 Chapter Ten: Native Cultural SitesChapter 17 Chapter Eleven: Transforming MuseumsChapter 18 Conclusion: Achievements Gained by Protests

This monograph raises significant questions and reveals numerous debates surrounding such issues as ownership and access to museum collections and archives; the repatriation of human remains, funerary items, and cultural patrimony; Native American traditional and modern art and art museums; the need for consultation and collarboration with Indigenous peoples and communities;and the importance of sacred sites.