Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal MuseumsMuseum 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. In Decolonizing 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

and the celebration of that which remains

and pepper whose tonic and healing properties are less widely known

in which she learned from the talented bead artists who keep the form alive

ranging from Scottish Gaelic to Mohawk

A self-proclaimed "vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial

At the back of the book is a two-way glossary which contains useful vocabulary

Under the cover of deepest night

WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota

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accomplished historian Devon Abbott Mihesuah

Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students