Decolonizing Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decolonizing Museums write by Amy Lonetree. This book was released on 2012. Decolonizing Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the co
The Representation of Native Americans at Museums
The Representation of Native Americans at Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Representation of Native Americans at Museums write by Tomoko Nishioka. This book was released on 1998. The Representation of Native Americans at Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Native American Representation in Museums
Native American Representation in Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native American Representation in Museums write by Misty Thorsgard. This book was released on 2007. Native American Representation in Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The image of Native Americans in the United States has changed through the passage of time. Part of this change is directly related to the representation of their cultures in a museum setting and the inception of cultural resource laws that govern them. This research looks at four museums, two in the United States and two in the United Kingdom, and compares their representation of Native Americans. Unlike museums in the United States, museums in the United Kingdom do not have to comply with laws that protect source communities. A source community is defined as the original group that an object found in a museum setting originates. Laws like the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) have shaped the relationship between museums and Native Americans in the United States. It has fostered a deeper understanding of Native American worldviews in American museum displays. This research demonstrates how American museums have changed the way they plan for and create displays about Native Americans because of cultural resource laws. This research reveals three movements in the United States that have occurred, due in part to cultural resource laws. First, the dichotomy between museums' relationship to their visitors in comparison to their responsibilities to source communities and how this has shifted; second, funding and the power struggle it has created in museums. Third, the issue of repatriation of objects, both nationally and internationally, due to the variety of opinions that surround this topic; and how this demonstrates a better working relationship with Native Americans in the United States, and is cause for great strife for the United Kingdom and other countries. These three illuminate the uneven relationship between museums and Native Americans and how cultural resource laws in the United States have begun to alter this relationship. NAGPRA has helped to reestablish Native Americans' legal authority over their culture in the United States.
Casino and Museum
Casino and Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Casino and Museum write by John Joseph Bodinger de Uriarte. This book was released on 2007-05-03. Casino and Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The past twenty-five years have seen enormous changes in Native America. One of the most profound expressions of change has been within the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The Nation has overcome significant hurdles to establish itself as a potent cultural and economic force highlighted by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and Foxwoods, the largest casino in the Western Hemisphere. In Casino and Museum, John J. Bodinger de Uriarte sees these two main commercial structures of the reservation as mutually supporting industries generating both material and symbolic capital. To some degree, both institutions offer Native representations yet create different strategies for attracting and engaging visitors. While the casino is crucial as an economic generator, the museum has an important role as the space for authentic Mashantucket Pequot images and narratives. The bookÕs focus is on how the casino and the museum successfully deploy different strategies to take control of the tribeÕs identity, image, and cultural agency. Photographs in the book provide a view of Mashantucket, allowing the reader to study the spaces of the bookÕs central arguments. They are a key methodology of the project and offer a non-textual opportunity to navigate the sites as well as one finely focused way to work through the representation and formation of the Native American photographic subjectÑthe powerful popular imagining of Native Americans. Casino and Museum presents a unique understanding of the prodigious role that representation plays in the contemporary poetics and politics of Native America. It is essential reading for scholars of Native American studies, museum studies, cultural studies, and photography.
The National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The National Museum of the American Indian write by Amy Lonetree. This book was released on 2008-11-01. The National Museum of the American Indian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first American national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples, the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC opened in 2004. It represents both the United States as a singular nation and the myriad indigenous nations within its borders. Constructed with materials closely connected to Native communities across the continent, the museum contains more than 800,000 objects and three permanent galleries and routinely holds workshops and seminar series. This first comprehensive look at the National Museum of the American Indian encompasses a variety of perspectives, including those of Natives and non-Natives, museum employees, and outside scholars across disciplines such as cultural studies and criticism, art history, history, museum studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Native American studies. The contributors engage in critical dialogues about key aspects of the museum?s origin, exhibits, significance, and the relationship between Native Americans and other related museums.
