This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays
illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives
for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the
traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and
nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for
museums in the decades ahead. The essays in section 1
consider ethnography’s influence on how Europeans represent
colonized peoples. Section 2 essays analyze curatorial practices,
emphasizing how exhibitions must serve diverse masters rather than
solely the curator’s own creativity and judgment, a dramatic
departure from past museum culture and practice. Section 3 essays
consider tribal museums that focus on contesting and critiquing
colonial views of American and Canadian history while serving the
varied needs of the indigenous communities. The institutions
examined in these pages range broadly from the National Museum of
the American Indian in Washington DC; the Oneida Nation Museum in
Oneida, Wisconsin; tribal museums in the Klamath River region in
California; the tribal museum in Zuni, New Mexico; the Museum of
the American Indian in New York City; and the District Six Museum
in Cape Town, South Africa.
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